Bernard Clerfayt is a Belgian politician. He has been the mayor of Schaerbeek since 2001 and is currently vice-president of the Front D�mocratique des Francophones. As is common in Belgium, he holds a dual mandate and has also been a member of the federal Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 2007. Clerfayt received a Master?s degree in economics from the Universit� Catholique de Louvain in 1986 while working as a research assistant at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven's Centre for Economic Studies. After an internship at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., he joined IRES at UCL. He pursued his career as a research and teaching assistant. He then obtained the chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economics at UCL, at Facult�s Universitaires Catholiques de Mons and at Facult�s Universitaires de Lille. Bernard Clerfayt joined the local section in Schaerbeek, where he had moved to, in 1985. Ten years later, he became 2nd Deputy Mayor in Schaerbeek and finally mayor in 2001. In June 1989, he was elected to the Brussels Parliament and was reelected in 1995, 1999 and 2004. 

December 30th, 1961 in Uccle (Age 62)