Nicole de Moor (born 1984) is a Belgian politician, a member of CD&V. On 28 June 2022, she became Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration in the government of Alexander De Croo.

Nicole de Moor
Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration
Assumed office
28 June 2022
MonarchPhilippe
Prime MinisterAlexander De Croo
Preceded bySammy Mahdi
Personal details
Born1984 (age 39–40)
Sint-Niklaas, Flanders, Belgium
Political partyCD&V
Alma mater
Occupationpolitician

Early life and career

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De Moor studied law at Ghent University and the University of Amsterdam. From August 2008 to May 2009, she was a legal advisor at the Flemish Minorities Center and from May 2009 to November 2013, she was a researcher at Ghent University. In 2014, she obtained her doctorate in law. From November 2013 to November 2014, she worked as the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons. Since 2021, she has been a member of the board of directors of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg. De Moor is married and mother of two children.[1]

Political career

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In November 2014, De Moor was a migration specialist in the cabinets of CD&V ministers Kris Peeters, Nathalie Muylle [nl] and Koen Geens, and in October 2020, she became head of cabinet to State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi.

In the 2019, Flemish elections, she was the first successor on the CD&V list in the Brussels-Capital constituency,[2] obtaining 379 votes.

At the end of June 2022, the party nominated De Moor as Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, in charge of the National Lottery and Deputy to the Minister of the Interior, Institutional Reforms and Democratic Renewal, in the De Croo Government, to succeed Mahdi, who had become party chairman.[1] On 28 June, she took the oath before the king.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b VRT (27 June 2022). "CD&V verrast met nieuwe staatssecretaris voor Asiel en Migratie: wie is Nicole de Moor?" [CD&V surprises with choice for new Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration: who is Nicole de Moor?].
  2. ^ "CD&V-lijst kleurt jong en vrouwelijk" (in Dutch). BRUZZ. 27 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Nicole de Moor legt eed af als nieuwe staatssecretaris voor Asiel en Migratie" [Nicole de Moor takes oath as new State Secretary for Asylum and Migration]. Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). 28 June 2022.
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