Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck

Anne-Marie Cécile J. "Annemie" Neyts-Uyttebroeck is a Belgian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with Anders, member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, where she sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
She was a third time member of the European Parliament, and former president of the Liberal International, from September 1999 to 2005. She was elected president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party in September 2005, during a party congress in Bratislava, Slovakia.
She was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and substitute for the Subcommittee on Security and Defense and a member of the Delegation for relations with NATO. She was the liberal spokesperson in the European Parliament on Foreign Affairs. She left the European Parliament on 1 January 2015.

Education

1966–1973: French teacher
1993–1997: Held various offices, first in the PVV and then in the VLD, including PVV National Chairwoman and VLD National Vice-chairwoman
Has held various offices in Liberal International
1999: Chairwoman since September
1982–1989: Member of the Brussels City Council
1981–2004: Elected at various times to the national and regional parliaments
2001–2003: Held various government offices in the regional and national governments during that period, including Brussels Minister for Finance, the Budget, Public Office and External Relations and Federal Minister attached to the Foreign Ministry, with responsibility for agriculture
1994–1999: Member of the European Parliament
1998–1999: First Vice-chairwoman of the ELDR Group
Chairwoman of the Beursschouwburg
Chairwoman of the Vlaams-Nederlands Huis
Chairwoman of the management council of the Foreign Trade Agency
Co-chairwoman of the Committee on Intercultural Dialogue