AudreyHenry

Born in La Louvière in 1982, Audrey Henry is a lawyer who graduated in law from UCLouvain in 2006. From 2007 to 2015, she was a legal attaché in charge of private security at the FPS Home Affairs.

She then joined the liberal ministerial cabinets: alongside Didier Reynders at Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2019, then with Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès, where she helped manage the Covid-19 crisis. Under the De Croo government, she was communications director for Deputy Prime Minister David Clarinval.

Based in Schaerbeek, she headed the list there in the 2024 municipal elections and was sworn in as mayor on 21 May 2025. She is the first woman to hold this office in the municipality.

In February 2026, she became Secretary of State for Spatial Planning, Town Planning, Public Cleanliness and Energy in the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region. In April 2026, her responsibilities were extended to sports infrastructure and school transport. She is also a member of the College of the French Community Commission.