CécileNeven

Born in Liège in 1967, Cécile Neven trained as an agricultural engineer. She began her career at the Public Service of Wallonia as an environmental adviser, before joining essenscia, the Belgian federation for chemistry and life sciences.

In 2005 she joined the Walloon Union of Enterprises as an energy adviser. She rose through the ranks, joined the management committee in 2019 and, in August 2023, took the helm of the organisation as Managing Director of the UWE.

Drawing on this experience of the business world and of energy issues, she joined the Walloon Government on 15 July 2024.

Since then she has been Walloon Minister for Energy, Airports, the Air-Climate Plan and Housing.