Thomas Dermine
Profile
Thomas Dermine is a Belgian politician and economist serving as the Mayor of Charleroi since December 2024. A member of the Socialist Party, he previously served as the federal Secretary of State for Recovery and Strategic Investments from 2020 to 2025, where he coordinated Belgium's national recovery plan following the COVID-19 pandemic. Before entering politics, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and later led the Institut Émile Vandervelde. His career is marked by a focus on social innovation, economic development, and the restitution of colonial-era cultural artifacts.
Details
- Born
- 1986-05-01 · 40 years old
- Birth place
- Charleroi, Belgium
- Education
- Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles, Harvard University
- Career
- Management consultant at McKinsey, project lead at Kamet Ventures, director of the Institut Émile Vandervelde
