Eliane Tillieux

Éliane Tillieux (French pronunciation: [eljan tiljø]; born 1966) is a Belgian Socialist politician from Namur (Wallonia) and the first woman to serve as president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.

[1] She also obtained an accountancy certificate from the Institut d'Enseignement Commercial de Namur (1992) and graduated Master of Public Administration from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (1993).

She worked as a linguist in the financial sector and as a manager in the Société Wallonne de Distribution d'Eau, where she advanced to be head of the commercial division's customer service department before resigning in 2004 to enter politics full-time.

She sat in the regional Walloon Parliament from 2004 to 2009, and served in the Walloon Government headed by Rudy Demotte from 2009 to 2014 as Minister for Social Action, Health and Equal Opportunities.

The following 30 September 2020 she became the Socialist Party's candidate as president of the chamber,[2] being sworn in on 13 October 2020.