{{BLP sources|date=November 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ingrid Lieten | image = Ingrid Lieten.jpg | caption = Ingrid Lieten in 2013 | office = Flemish Minister of Innovation and Media | term_start = 13 July 2009 | term_end = 25 July 2014 | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|4|20|df=y}} | birth_place = Hasselt | death_date = | death_place = | party = SP.A }} '''Ingrid Lieten''' (born 20 April 1964, Hasselt) is a Flemish politician and former Minister for Innovation, Public Investment, Media and Poverty Reduction in the Flemish Government for the Socialist Party – Different.
She studied jurisprudence at the VUB and became a lawyer at the bar association of Brussels and Hasselt. A couple of years later, she obtained a master's degree in Industrial Location and Development.
On 1 January 2002, Lieten became CEO of De Lijn, de Flemish national bus company.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eutrio.be/belgium/flanders/flemish-government/ingrid-lieten/ingrid-lieten |title="Home › Belgium › Flanders › Flemish Government › Ingrid Lieten" |access-date=2013-11-12 |archive-date=2013-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112102451/http://www.eutrio.be/belgium/flanders/flemish-government/ingrid-lieten/ingrid-lieten |url-status=dead }}</ref> She left the company in 2009. On 13 July 2009, Lieten was appointed Minister for Innovation, Public Investment, Media and Poverty Reduction in the Flemish Government by her party, the Socialist Party – Different (sp-a). Lieten was also the Flemish vice-premier, alongside N-VA politician Geert Bourgeois.
In February 2011, Lieten caused a stir in the Flemish Government, after she called her fellow ministers "insensitive caricatures made of Teflon and concrete" in a leaked email.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/5036/Wetstraat/article/detail/1224413/2011/02/18/Uit-teflon-en-beton-opgetrokken-gevoelloze-karikaturen-is-er-over.dhtml |title=Uit teflon en beton opgetrokken gevoelloze karikaturen is er over - Wetstraat - De Morgen |language=Dutch |publisher=Demorgen.be |date= |accessdate=2014-06-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.965989 |title=Flemish minister insults cabinet colleagues |publisher=Deredactie.be |date=2011-02-18 |accessdate=2014-06-09}}</ref>
== Honours == *'''2014''': commander in the Order of Leopold.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2014/12/10/vlaams_parlementreiktonderscheidingenuitaanministersenparlementa-1-2176705/|title=Vlaams Parlement reikt onderscheidingen uit aan ministers en parlementairen|first=VRT|last=NWS|date=December 10, 2014|website=vrtnws.be|accessdate=October 12, 2019}}</ref>
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