Francesca Van Belleghem

Francesca Van Belleghem (born 6 January 1995) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Vlaams Belang party who has served as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 2024 for the East Flanders constituency.

Francesca Van Belleghem
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 2024
Personal details
Born	Francesca Van Belleghem (1995-06-01) 1 June 1995 (age 30) Bruges, Belgium
Political party	Vlaams Belang
Alma mater	Catholic University of Leuven

Biography

Van Belleghem obtained a master's degree in law from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2018 followed by a degree taxation law in 2019. She worked as a lawyer in Aalst and Sint-Martens-Latem focusing on tax law before spending a year as a financial consultant for Deloitte in Antwerp.^[1]

She joined Vlaams Belang in 2021 and worked as an assistant to Barbara Pas. She was also a policy officer for the party on law and migration. In 2024, she published a book Migratiestop with VB leader Tom Van Grieken detailing the party's immigration policies.^[2] For the 2024 Belgian federal election, she stood for the East Flanders constituency and was elected to the Chamber of Representatives. She sits on the federal committees on Home Affairs, Security, Migration and Administrative Affairs.^[3]