Petra De Sutter is a Belgian gynaecologist and professor in Reproductive Medicine. She is a member of the Flemish Green Party and an appointed Senator and member of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). At PACE, she is the Chair of PACE’s Rules-committee and a member of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons and the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. She also chaired the political group’s women working group between 2015 and 2018. Since 2015, Petra has been the vice-chair of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development. She is one of the three candidates to become Spitzenkandidat for the European Greens at the coming European elections.