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{{Short description|Belgian politician (born 1954)}}
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|name = Isabelle Durant
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|caption = Isabelle Durant in 2019
|office = [[Belgian Senate|Senator]]
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|term_end = June 2011
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|nationality = Belgian
| party = [[Ecolo]] <br />[[The Greens–European Free Alliance]]
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|spouse = [[Jean-Claude Willame]]
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|residence = [[BrusselsGeneva]]
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|website = [http://www.isabelledurant.be www.isabelledurant.be ]
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{{for|the Australian actress|Isabel Durant}}
 
'''Isabelle Annie J. Durant'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/profiles/isabelle-durant|title=Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development &#124; United Nations Secretary-General|website=www.un.org}}</ref> (born 4 September 1954) is a Belgian politician of the [[Ecolo]] party who served as Deputy Secretary-General of the [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]] (UNCTAD) from 2017 to 2021 and as acting Secretary-General of the organisation from 2021 to 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://unctad.org/news/isabelle-durant-takes-over-acting-head-unctad|title=Isabelle Durant takes over as acting head of UNCTAD |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=16 February 2021 |website=[[UNCTAD]] |publisher= |access-date=16 February 2021 |quote=}}</ref><ref>[https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/personnel-appointments/2022-11-04/mr-pedro-manuel-moreno-of-spain%C2%A0-deputy-secretary-general-of-united-nations-conference-trade-and-development%C2%A0%28unctad%29 Mr. Pedro Manuel Moreno of Spain - Deputy Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)] [[United Nations]], press release of 4 November 2022.</ref>
'''Isabelle A.J. Durant''' (born 4 September 1954) is a Belgian politician, member of the [[Ecolo]] party. She has been serving as Deputy Secretary-General of the [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]] (UNCTAD) since 2017.
 
==Early life and education==
Durant graduated as a nurse, then became a vocational trainer for the care sector, and worked with schools in working-class districts. She later complemented her nursing degree with a bachelor’sbachelor's degree in social and economic politics from the [[Université catholique de Louvain]].<ref>Els Samyn (December 14, 2011), [http://www.politico.eu/article/eco-friendly-federalist/ Eco-friendly federalist] ''[[European Voice]]''.</ref>
 
==Political career==
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Between 1999 and 2003, Durant served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mobility and Transport in the [[Belgian federal government]], [[Guy Verhofstadt]]'s [[Verhofstadt I Government|first government]].
 
In 2003, Durant and her party colleague [[Olivier Deleuze]] resigned from Verhofstadt’sVerhofstadt's government one week before the [[2003 Belgian federal election, 2003|national elections]] and after a clash over the issue of night flights from [[Brussels Airport]].<ref>John Carreyrou (January 10, 2000), [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB947448990924358973 Controversy Flies Over Brussels And Green Party's Noise Plan] ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''.</ref><ref>Tim King (March 30, 2016), [http://www.politico.eu/article/why-belgium-politicians-havent-lost-their-jobs-resignation-political-failures-security-brussels-terror-attacks/ Why Belgian politicians haven’t lost their jobs] ''[[Politico Europe]]''.</ref>
 
===Member of the Senate, 2003–2011===
Durant was a member of the [[Senate (Belgium)|Senate]] between 2003 and 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Belgische Senaat |url=http://www.senate.be/www/?MIval=/index_senate&MENUID=11200&LANG=nl |publisher=[[Belgian Senate]] |language=Dutch |accessdate=10 June 2009}}</ref> As a Senator, she served on Committees for Foreign Affairs, Social Affairs and participated in many elections observation missions ([[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Egypt]], [[Tunisia]]) (2003-2009).<ref name="auto">[https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sga1737.doc.htm Secretary-General Appoints Isabelle Durant of Belgium as Deputy Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development] [[United Nations]], press release of 9 June 2017.</ref>
 
From 2004, Durnat also served as Federal Secretary and Spokesperson of [[Ecolo]], this time with [[Jean-Michel Javaux]] and [[Claude Brouir]] but also as a replacement for [[Evelyne Huytebroeck]] who became minister in the [[List of governments in Belgium|Government of the Brussels-Capital Region]].
 
===Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2014===
Durant became a [[Member of the European Parliament]] in the [[2009 European Parliament election, 2009in (Belgium)|2009 European elections]]. She served as [[Vice President of the European Parliament]] under the leadership of president [[Martin Schulz]] between 2009 and 2014. In addition, she was a member of the [[Committee on Budgets]], the delegation for relations with [[Iran]] and the delegation to the [[ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly]]. In 2012, she also served on a cross-party working group which presented new rules for what gifts MEPs might accept.<ref>[http://www.politico.eu/article/on-the-fast-track/ On the fast track] ''[[European Voice]]'', September 26, 2012.</ref><ref>Eric Lipton and Danny Hakim (October 18, 2013), [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/world/europe/lobbying-bonanza-as-firms-try-to-influence-european-union.html Lobbying Bonanza as Firms Try to Influence European Union] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref>
 
On 15 September 2010 Durant supported the new initiative [[Spinelli Group]] in the [[European Parliament]], which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters include [[Jacques Delors]], [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]], [[Guy Verhofstadt]], [[Andrew Duff]] and [[Elmar Brok]].
[[file:Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Mia Mottley and Isabelle Durant.jpg|thumb|[[Pamela Coke-Hamilton]], Prime Minister [[Mia Mottley]] and Durant. ]]
 
In December 2013, Durant led a European Parliament delegation – including [[Tarja Cronberg]], [[Cornelia Ernst]] [[Marietje Schaake]] and [[Josef Weidenholzer]] – visiting Tehran where members met parliament speaker [[Ali Larijani]] and his brother, [[Mohammad Javad Larijani]], head of the judiciary's high council on human rights; human rights lawyer [[Nasrin Sotoudeh]]; and filmmaker [[Jafar Panahi]].
 
===DeputyCareer Secretary-General ofat UNCTAD, 2017–present2017–2022===
In June 2017, [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[António Guterres]], in consultation with [[Mukhisa Kituyi]], decided to appoint Durant as Deputy Secretary-General of the [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development]] (UNCTAD). Durant succeeded [[Joakim Reiter]].<ref name="auto"/>[https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sga1737.doc.htm Secretary-GeneralOn Appoints16 IsabelleFebruary 2021, Durant ofreplaced Belgium[[Mukhisa asKituyi]] Deputyat Secretary-Generalthe head of Unitedthe Nations Conference on Trade and Development] [[United Nations]]organisation, pressbecoming releaseacting ofSecretary-General 9 June 20172022.</ref>
 
==Other activities==
* Friends of Europe, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)<ref>[https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/trustees/ Friends of Europe appoints 29 new members to its Board of Trustees] Friends of Europe, press release of June 25, 2020.</ref>
 
== Honours ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.isabelledurant.be/ Personal website of Isabelle Durant] (Fr)
* [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20190212173737/http://spinelligroup.eu/ Spinelli Group]
 
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