Dr. Johan Van Overtveldt (born 1955, Belgium) has a Ph.D in Applied Economics. He studied Economics at the University of Antwerp and Business Administration at the Catholic University of Leuven.
He started his career as a journalist and a Chief Economist, and became Editor in Chief for leading Belgian financial- and economic magazines. In the early years of his career he was an economic- and financial advisor for several national and international companies.
In November 2013 Van Overtveldt switched over to politics, becoming a member of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). As main N-VA candidate for the 2014 European Parliament elections, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament.
Following the formation of the Belgian Government in October 2014, Van Overtveldt became Minister of Finance.
As Minister of Finance he had a seat in the Eurogroup, the meeting of the finance ministers of the euro zone which played an important role in addrerssing the Greek crisis.
In his capacity as Minister he also was an Ex-Officio member of the Board of Governors for the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the World Bank.
Since the 2019 elections, Van Overtveldt has been a member of the European Parliament, where he has been chairing the Parliament's Committee on Budgets and leading the parliament’s delegation in negotiations on the EU-budget. In addition, he is a member and Coördinator of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism.