Johan Cyrille Corneel Vande Lanotte (born 6 July 1955) is a Belgian politician.

Between 1995 and 2014, he served more than 13 years as Deputy Prime Minister, the longest period for a Flemish socialist after WW II.

In his last term he served as the Minister of Economy, Consumer affairs and North Sea in the Di Rupo I Government.

During his political career he continued to work as a professor at the University of Ghent, specialized in Constitutional Law and Human Rights.

Vande Lanotte also published one of the six reports of the Turkey Tribunal entitled "Crimes Against Humanity under the Rome Statute in Turkey Today"[3] In 1978 he graduated magna cum laude in Political and Social Sciences, option: Sociology (Master's degree) from the University of Antwerp.