Tom Meeuws

Tom Meeuws is Vice-Mayor of the City of Antwerp and its alderman for social affairs, poverty reduction, social economy, environment and honorary services.

Over the past 20 years, Meeuws has worked in a number of roles at the City of Antwerp, including: staff member to the city’s labour market policy, chief of staff for the Vice Mayor for Community Development, Director of the City’s department for community building and society, and Director of its public mobility enterprise De Lijn.

Prior to this, he was a policy advisor on labour market and sustainable development for the Federal Planning Bureau, an independent advisory institution supporting Belgian policy making.

In his current role as alderman, Meeuws is responsible for Antwerp’s commitments in several European partnerships and member of the European Regional Executive Committee of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability. Building on these, his areas of focus include tackling energy poverty, decarbonising buildings, and the just energy transition.

Throughout his long career, family justice matters have always been an important concern.

In his (rare) spare time, Tom is a passionate drum player in several local bands.