Marie-Colline Leroy
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Marie-Colline Leroy | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Leroy in 2024 | |
| Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity | |
| In office 2 May 2023 – 3 February 2025 | |
| Monarch | Philippe |
| Prime Minister | Alexander De Croo |
| Preceded by | Sarah Schlitz |
| Succeeded by | Rob Beenders |
| Member of the Chamber of Representatives | |
| In office 20 June 2019 – 11 May 2023 | |
| Succeeded by | Louis Mariage |
| Constituency | Hainaut |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 July 1984 |
| Party | Ecolo |
| Alma mater | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Occupation | Politician |
Marie-Colline Leroy (born 1 July 1984) is a Belgian politician from Ecolo.[1] She served as the Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunities and Diversity and Deputy to the Minister of Mobility in the De Croo Government from 2 May 2023 until 3 February 2025.[2]
Leroy was born on 1 July 1984 in Baudour.[3] Her father, Jacky Leroy, was the former Director General of Education of the French Community at the French Community and worked in various cabinets[4] while her mother is a Dutch teacher.[1] She has one brother, Baptiste Leroy, who is a municipal councillor in Leuze-en-Hainaut.[5]
She studied Romance languages at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).[6] She then started teaching at the school Athénée Royal de Braine-le-Comt from September 2007 to June 2008.[7] Since September 2008 she has been a lecturer at Haute Ecole en Hainaut, as she was awarded her certification to teach in upper secondary education at ULB.[7]