* Registered nurse
* Bachelor of economic and social policy (Fopes) (dissertation
at the UCL : "Identité culturelle à Bruxelles,
quelle médiation associative?")
Vocational activities
* Medico-social function in crèches
and within the medical school inspection in working-class
districts (1979-1980)
* Teacher in professional education in Brussels (1981-1989)
* Co-ordination of the ZEP project ('Zone d'Education Prioritaire')
in Anderlecht and setting up local associative projects
within the context of the social development of districts
(1989-1992)
* Took part in various European exchange programmes
Political activities
* Member of the ECOLO party since
1989 (local group of Schaerbeek)
* Member of the editorial committee of the monthly magazine
"ECOLO en Action" (until 1994)
* Attaché of the ECOLO parliamentary group at the
Regional Council of Brussels (1992-1994)
* Federal secretary and spokeswoman of ECOLO-AGALEV (1994-1999)
* Member of the federal Office of ECOLO-AGALEV (1995-1999)
* Co-ordinator of the States General of political Ecology
(EGEP – Etats généraux de l'Ecologie
politique), a process of dialogue with the civilian society
initiated by Ecolo in 1996.
Governmental functions
* Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
for Mobility and Transport (12th July 1999 - )
on the Constitutional
Convention, 17th May in Berlin
