Danny Pieters | |
Office: | President of the Senate of Belgium |
Term Start: | 20 July 2010 |
Term End: | 10 October 2011 |
Predecessor: | Armand De Decker |
Successor: | Sabine de Bethune |
Birth Date: | 13 October 1956 |
Birth Place: | Uccle, Belgium |
Party: | New Flemish Alliance |
Website: | Official website |
Danny Pieters (born 13 October 1956) is a Belgian politician and judge.
Pieters was first elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1999 as a member of the Volksunie and served until 2003. After the demise of that party he became affiliated to the N-VA. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2010.[1] He was the 33rd President of the Belgian Senate from July 2010 until October 2011.
He obtained a doctorate in law in 1985 and is currently a professor of social security law at the KU Leuven.
In 2021 Pieters was appointed as a member of the Constitutional Court of Belgium.