Patrick Janssens (born 19 September 1956) is a Belgian former politician.

Janssens studied "Political and Social Sciences" and "Applied Economic Sciences" (both Masters) at the University of Antwerp and Statistics at the London School of Economics.

From 1979 to 1985 he was an assistant in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Antwerp, first of Jan Vranken (with whom he wrote the first National Report on Poverty in Belgium, within the framework of the First European Anti-Poverty Programme) and then of Herman Deleeck.

Janssens lost the 2012 municipal elections to Bart De Wever of the N-VA. On 25 August 2014, he became general director of football club KRC Genk but was succeeded by Erik Gerits [nl] on 9 February 2018 , and on the 2 of January he was elected councilman in the De Wever Government .

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