# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rik-daems
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:10:57.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rik-daems"
name: "Rik Daems"
slug: "rik-daems"
description: "Hendrik Jules Joseph \"Rik\" Daems is a Belgian politician, painter and wine trader who served as the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2020 to 2022, a 70-year-old body bringing together parliamentarians from 47 nations of the Council of Europe. He served as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) and member of the city council of Leuven."
tagline: "Belgian painter and politician (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2021_Rik_Daems.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.013500000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RikDaems"
    handle:    "RikDaems"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Daems"
    title: "Rik Daems"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "ريك دايمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8B%D0%BA_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Рык Дамс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Daems"
    title: "Rik Daems"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Daems"
    title: "Rik Daems"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Daems"
    title: "Rik Daems"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Daems"
    title: "Rik Daems"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Daems"
    title: "Rik Daems"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1382799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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