Johan Van Overtveldt (born 24 August 1955) is a Belgian journalist and politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). He served as Minister of Finance of Belgium from 2014 until 2018.

He was the chief editor of Trends from 2010 to 2013 and chief editor of Knack from 2011 to 2012.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012 he was awarded the Prize for Liberty by the Flemish classical-liberal think tank Libera!.

In November 2013 Van Overtveldt switched over to politics, becoming a member of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). As main N-VA candidate for the 2014 European Parliament elections, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament.

Following the formation of the Michel Government in October 2014, Van Overtveldt became Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Charles Michel; Sander Loones succeeded him as member of the European Parliament.

Since the 2019 elections, Van Overtveldt has been a member of the European Parliament, where he has been chairing the Parliament's Committee on Budgets. In addition, he is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, he is the Parliament's rapporteur on the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021–2027.^[1]

In addition to his committee assignments, Van Overtveldt is also part of the Parliament's delegations for relations to Canada.^[2]

• Het einde van de Euro^[11]
• Maandag geen economie meer?^[12]
• The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business^[13]
• Bernanke's test^[14]