Cieltje Van Achter

Cieltje Van Achter (born 1979) is a Belgian lawyer and politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance party.

Cieltje Van Achter in November 2024 at the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council.

Van Achter is the daughter-in-law of former N-VA leader Geert Bourgeois. She studied law at the KU Leuven and the Université René Descartes in Paris. She later studied International Relations at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.^[1]

Since 2014, she has served as a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region. In the 2019 elections, she was re-elected as leader of the N-VA list in the Brussels Parliament with 3,256 preference votes. The party retained its three seats and became the second largest Dutch-speaking party. Van Achter subsequently became chairman of the N-VA faction in the Brussels Parliament.^[2][3]