She received a law degree from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1998 and began work as an assistant in public law at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) until 2000.
She was leader of the Reformist Movement (MR) group on the Namur council in 2005 and the alderman for Finance, Commerce and the Economy in November 2006.
[1][2] She worked closely with Sabine Laruelle, Bernard Ducoffre and François Bellot and she was re-elected to the Parliament in 2009 and in 2014.
[1][3] In the October 2012 municipal elections in Namur, the MR joined with the Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH) to create a majority.
She gave up her seat in the Walloon Parliament to take this position and became the co-opted member in the Senate of Belgium for the MR on 10 July 2014.