Yasmine Kherbache

Yasmine Kherbache      ( politician,  lawyer)
Born	3 April 1972  Antwerp,  Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Ethnicity	Algerian
Alma mater	•  Catholic University of Leuven •  Université libre de Bruxelles
Member of	Trilateral Commission
Party	Christian Democratic and Flemish
Belgian politician. Given her establishment-integrated immigrant background and that she sat on a parliamentary committee to combat violent radicalization, it is likely was selected to attend the 2016 Bilderberg meeting in June because of the 2016 Brussels Bombing in March the same year. One of the topics was Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity  Chief of Staff In office January 2012 - May 2014 Appointed by Elio Di Rupo

Yasmine Kherbache is a Belgian lawyer with deep state connections. Given her establishment-integrated immigrant background and that she sat on the Flemish committee to combat violent radicalisation, it is likely was selected to attend the 2016 Bilderberg meeting in June because of the 2016 Brussels Bombing in March the same year. One of the topics was Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity. Since 2017, she was a member of the Trilateral Commission and later became a Constitutional Court judge.

Background

She is the daughter of a Belgian mother and an Algerian father, and lived in Algeria until she was six years old. Due to the increasing religious extremism and insecurity in Algeria, her parents chose to move to Belgium. In the years that followed, Algeria was plagued by jihadist terror and civil war, killing more than 100,000 Algerians.

Education

Kherbache studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Free University of Brussels.She studied for a year at the University of Barcelona, where she delved into constitutional law and institutional reforms in Catalonia.

Activities

Wrote on integration in 2012.

Career

After her studies, she became a lawyer, specializing in social law and intellectual property law]. She started in 1996 as a lawyer at the international law firm De Bandt, Van Hecke and Lagae (today Linklaters), the first law firm in Belgium based on the Anglo-Saxon model. She then established herself as a lawyer in Antwerp in 1999 with her own practice in the association Nietvelt Advocaten.

Former Flemish deputy minister-president and Minister of employment and education Frank Vandenbroucke (sp.A) asked her to join his cabinet in 2004, which led her to decide to leave the legal profession. Kherbache worked as Deputy Chief of Cabinet to Frank Vandenbroucke from 2004 to 2009, in which capacity she was responsible for European and national labour market policy and state reform.

In April 2010 she succeeded Dirk Van Melkebeke as Chief of Cabinet of Flemish deputy prime minister Ingrid Lieten, a position she held until December 2011.

When Elio Di Rupo took office as prime minister of Belgium, she was his Chief of Staff from January 2012 to May 2014. She was responsible for socio-economic affairs.

In the municipal elections in Antwerp in October 2012, Kherbache stood as a candidate in second place of the social democrat sp.a. list. Kherbache was elected group leader of the opposition party sp.a within the City Council of Antwerp. On 27 april 2015, she permanently resigned her position as faction leader in the city council and her chairmanship of the Antwerp branch.

In the Flemish elections of 25 May 2014, Kherbache stood in third place for the constituency of Antwerp. she was elected to the Flemish Parliament and received 19,348 preferential votes. In the Flemish Parliament, Kherbache sat on the Committee on the economy, Work, Social Economy, Innovation and science policy from 2014 to 2019 and was mainly concerned with labour market policy. She was also a member of the Flemish Parliament committee to combat violent radicalization from 2015 to 2019.

Given her immigrant background and committee membersip, it is likely was selected to attend the 2016 Bilderberg meeting in June because of the 2016 Brussels Bombing in March the same year. One of the topics was Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity.

In 2014 Jef Lambrecht wrote a puff biography of her.This is "the fairy tale of an inquisitive, idealistic and free-spirited girl who quietly and almost playfully found her way to the top. Although she was perfectly happy behind the scenes, fate again took her to another destination. The little-known chief of cabinet of Prime Minister Di Rupo became the new face of the Antwerp Socialists. In this book she talks in human language about her unusual path, her views and about politics at this time."

She remained a Flemish member of parliament until the end of May 2019, when she was elected to the Federal parliament.

Since 2017, she was a member of the [[Trilateral Commission] and became a member of the steering committee of the Mercator European Dialogue.

Constitutional Court

In September 2019, Kherbache was nominated a member of the Constitutional Court. on november 14, which marked the end of her political career. At the age of 47, became the youngest judge on the Constitutional Court and the first with a migration background. Although she was not obliged to do so, upon her appointment she decided to renounce her second, Algerian nationality. On 17 December 2019, she took the oath as a judge in the Constitutional Court after resigning from the Antwerp city council and the chamber.

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Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2016	9 June 2016	12 June 2016	Germany Dresden	The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.

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