| Jan Béghin | |
| Birth Date: | 7 September 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Ypres, Belgium |
| Death Place: | Aalst, Belgium |
| Nationality: | Belgian |
| Education: | KU Leuven |
| Party: | CD&V (1971–2004) SP.A (since 2004) |
| Office: | Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region |
| Term Start: | 1989 |
| Term End: | 2009 |
| Office2: | Member of the Flemish Parliament |
| Term Start2: | 1997 |
| Term End2: | 1999 |
Jan Béghin (7 September 1949 – 3 May 2022) was a Belgian politician for the Flemish Socialist Party (SP.A) and the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) party.[1]
Béghin was the son of a Francophone father and a Dutch-speaking mother and spent his childhood in Ganshoren. He attended secondary school at the before obtaining a master's degree in mathematics and in economic sciences from KU Leuven.[2]
In 1971, Béghin was elected to the municipal council of Ganshoren as a member of CD&V. He was schepen of public works and Dutch culture from 1977 to 2000. He left the municipal council in 2005. From 1972 to 1989, he was a member of the Dutch Commission for the Culture of the Brussels Agglomeration, of which he was vice-president from 1979 to 1988, and chairman from 1988 to 1989. From 1982 to 1988, he was also director of the Contact- en Cultuurcentrum Brussel.
On 12 July 1989, Béghin became a member of the newly formed Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region.[3] From 1989 to 2009, he was also a member of the . Through his mandate in the Brussels-Capital Region Parliament, he also served in the Flemish Parliament from 1997 to 1999.[4]
In 2004, Béghin switched to the SP.A due to the coalition between CD&V and the New Flemish Alliance, the latter of which he vehemently opposed.[5] In 2009, he retired from the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region.[6]
Jan Béghin died in Aalst on 3 May 2022, at the age of 72.[7]