Charles Michel

Charles Y.J.Gh. Michel (born December 21, 1975 in Namur) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Mouvement réformateur. From October 11, 2014 through October 27, 2019, he was the Prime Minister of Belgium.

Michel Jr. studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Amsterdam. He successively worked as a lawyer in Brussels.

He held several political posts like government minister of Development Cooperation and an alderman and mayor of Wavre (last one still incumbent).

On 2 July 2019, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk announced a deal reached by EU Leaders which would make Michel his replacement and took office on 1 December 2019.^[1]

Charles Michel Media

Michel and United States Secretary of State John Kerry, 25 March 2016
Michel meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden, June 2021
Michel meeting in Baku with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, July 2021
Michel with Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed and other leaders at the International Conference on Development and Migration in Rome, 23 July 2023
President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili, Maia Sandu, Volodymyr Zelensky and Charles Michel during the 2021 Batumi Conference.