Jos Geysels

Josephus " Jos " Elisabeth AM Geysels ( born September 20, 1952 in Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium ) is a former Belgian politician of the Agalev and since 2007 Chairman of 11:11:11, a non-governmental organization for development cooperation.

Biography

Already as a student he took part in the protests of the '68 movement and studied post-school sociology at the University of Antwerp. After graduating, he was between 1975 and 1985 a coordinator at a community college.

His political career began as the candidate of Agalev 1987 first elected as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1991 he was one of the founders of the so-called " cordon sanitaire " against the extreme right-wing Flemish party Vlaams Blok.

After he retired from the House of Representatives in 1995, he was elected a member of the Flemish Parliament, where he was also leader of the Agalev. During the illness of Wilfried Bervoets he was also Acting from September to December 1997, and after the death of Bervoets on 24 July 1998 Political Secretary of Agalev.

As Acting Political Secretary he sought distance to the green movement Anders Gaan Leven of the Jesuit priest and co-founder of Agalev, Luc Versteylen. In the elections to the Chamber of Deputies on 13 June 1999, the party won a gain votes and was then part of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. Despite its leadership position in the party but not, he was appointed the first government Verhofstadt, but Magda Aelvoet as Minister for Consumer Protection, Public Health and Environment.

After his re-election as Members of the Flemish Parliament on 6 July 1999, he was elected by the Planning Convention on 23 October 1999, the political secretary of the party, although these offices connecting expressly disagreed with the applicable statutes of Agalev.

For his political merits him the honorary title of Minister of State was awarded on 28 January 2002, and thus the membership of the Privy Council.

After the defeat of Agalev in the parliamentary elections on 18 May 2003, he resigned as Political Secretary of the party on 20 May 2003. After the party on 15 November 2003 in Groen! was renamed Vera Dua was the first chairman.

He became Prime Minister Verhofstadt as a special envoy for institution -ups consultants whose second government in 2005. As such, he was also crisis regions and war zones as deployed in Rwanda to offer Belgian aid for the reconstruction of state structures. At his own request he gave this function on 1 February 2007.

Since 20 June 2007, he is chairman of the independent development organization 11:11:11.

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