Tom Jozef Irène Van Grieken (born 7 October 1986) is a Belgian politician and author who has served as leader of Vlaams Belang since October 2014. Van Grieken was born in Antwerp and later moved to Mortsel where he served as a municipal councillor. His father is a retired police officer and his mother worked at a tobacconist store. He studied communications management at the Plantijn Hogeschool and worked in the advertising sector prior to entering politics full time. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)