{{Short description|Belgian politician (born 1956)}} {{Infobox Officeholder |name = Danny Pieters |office = President of the Senate of Belgium |term_start = 20 July 2010 |term_end = 10 October 2011 |predecessor = Armand De Decker |successor = Sabine de Bethune |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|10|13|df=y}} |birth_place = Uccle, Belgium |death_date = |death_place = |party = New Flemish Alliance |website = [http://www.n-va.be/cv/danny-pieters Official website] }} '''Danny Pieters''' (born 13 October 1956) is a Belgian politician and judge.
Pieters was first elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1999 as a member of the Volksunie and served until 2003. After the demise of that party he became affiliated to the N-VA. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2010.<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=16 July 2010}}</ref> He was the 33rd President of the Belgian Senate from July 2010 until October 2011.
He obtained a doctorate in law in 1985 and is currently a professor of social security law at the KU Leuven.
In 2021 Pieters was appointed as a member of the Constitutional Court of Belgium.
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