# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-magnette
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:45:57.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-magnette"
name: "Paul Magnette"
slug: "paul-magnette"
description: "Paul Magnette is a Belgian politician. Since 2019, he is the leader of the Socialist Party, a social democratic French-speaking party in Belgium. He was mayor of Charleroi from December 2012 to December 2024. Magnette is a former political science professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Director of the Institute of European Studies of the ULB. He was appointed minister in the Belgian federal government from 2007 to 2013 and was Minister-President of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017. He also was a member of the Senate of Belgium, of the Parliament of Wallonia and of the Parliament of the French Community."
tagline: "Belgian political scientist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_de_Paul_Magnette_par_Vanden_Driessche_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1971-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.428744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/PaulMagnette"
    handle:    "PaulMagnette"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.paulmagnette.be"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Magnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Magnette"
    title: "Paul Magnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulus_Magnette"
    title: "Paulus Magnette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Magnette_(politicus)"
    title: "Paul Magnette (politicus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Magnette_(polityk)"
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    title: "Paul Magnette"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump