# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melchior-wathelet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:25:03.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melchior-wathelet"
name: "Melchior Wathelet"
slug: "melchior-wathelet"
description: "Melchior H. M. J. F. C. Wathelet is a Belgian politician and member of the Humanist Democratic Centre who served as 4th Minister-President of Wallonia. He has degrees in law and in economics and is a Master of Laws. He is also a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Université de Liège. From 1995 to 2003 he was a Judge at the European Court of Justice. Following that, Wathelet served as Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration. In 2012-2018, Wathelet served as Advocate-General at the Court of Justice."
tagline: "Belgian politician and lawyer (born 1949)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.37
  momentum:             1.649769585253456
  historical:           7.245504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%DA%BE%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%B9"
    title: "میچیور واتھلیٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet"
    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_(%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89)"
    title: "ميلكيور واثيليت (محامى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_senior"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_(p%C3%A8re)"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet (père)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_(1949)"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet (1949)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Wathelet_(1949)"
    title: "Melchior Wathelet (1949)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369909"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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