Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Incumbent Assumed office 1 July 2009 Preceded by Graham Watson Member of the European Parliament Incumbent Assumed office 14 July 2009 Prime Minister of Belgium In office 12 July 1999 – 20 March 2008 Monarch Albert II Deputy Laurette Onkelinx Didier Reynders Preceded by Jean-Luc Dehaene Succeeded by Yves Leterme Personal details Born Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (1953-04-11) 11 April 1953 (age 61) Dendermonde, Belgium Political party Party for Freedom and Progress (Before 1992) Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (1992–present) Spouse(s) Dominique Verkinderen Children 2 Alma mater Ghent University Signature Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (Dutch: [ˈɣiː vərˈɦɔfstɑt] ( listen); born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician, who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. Since 2009 he has served as a Member of the European Parliament where he is the leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and founded the inter-parliamentarian federalist Spinelli Group. He was the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party nominee for President of the European Commission in the 2014 European Parliament election.