# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melchior-wathelet-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:33:26.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melchior-wathelet-jr"
name: "Melchior Wathelet, Jr."
slug: "melchior-wathelet-jr"
description: "Melchior Wathelet is a Belgian politician, Secretary of State of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms, and member of the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH). His father is Melchior Wathelet. He followed part of his secondary education in Dutch at a school in Bilzen, Limburg. After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Master of European Law from the University of Southampton, he became lawyer at the Bar association of Liège in 2002."
tagline: "Belgian politician (born 1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melchior_Wathelet_junior.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1977-09-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.1
  momentum:             0.2288329519450801
  historical:           7.216092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.melchiorwathelet.be/"
sources:
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    title: "ملچیور واتھلیٹ جونیئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "ميلكيور واثيليت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_junior"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet junior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_Jr."
    title: "Melchior Wathelet Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_(fils)"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet (fils)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_(1977)"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet (1977)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_(1977)"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet (1977)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_(ur._1977)"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet (ur. 1977)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212717"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump