An Capoen

Capoen is a daughter of former Volksunie senator Michel Capoen. She graduated with a degree in medicine in 2007 and then pathology in 2012 from the Catholic University of Leuven and worked as a pathology specialist at the UZ Leuven from 2007 to 2012, and then at the AZ St-Augustinus hospital in Veurne.^[1]

She was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives during the 2014 Belgian federal election for the West Flanders constituency. As a member of parliament, Capoen focused on health care, social security and foreign policy. She lost her seat during the 2019 Belgian federal election to Vlaams Belang. After the 2024 Belgian federal election, she designated by the N-VA to sit in the Senate. She has also been a councilor for the N-VA in Bruges since 2018.^[2]