Jo Deman

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1983|6|2|df=y}}

| birth_place = Leuven, Belgium

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Jo Deman, from Leuven, Belgium is one of the 12 elected members of the World Scout Committee, the main executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.{{cite web |url=http://www.guides.be/blog/news-blog-international/un-belge-au-pilotage-du-scoutisme-mondial |archive-date=4 December 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204201113/http://www.guides.be/blog/news-blog-international/un-belge-au-pilotage-du-scoutisme-mondial |year=2016 |language=french |title=Un Belge au pilotage du scoutisme mondial |trans-title=A Belgian at the helm of World Scouting |access-date=4 December 2017 |publisher=Guides Catholiques de Belgique}}{{cite news |url=https://www.hln.be/regio/leuven/leuvense-scout-in-world-committee~a8e8327f/ |url-status=live |language=nl-be |work=Het Laatste Nieuws |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204204342/https://www.hln.be/regio/leuven/leuvense-scout-in-world-committee~a8e8327f/ |date=18 August 2017 |archive-date=4 December 2017 |access-date=4 December 2017 |title=Leuvense scout in World Committee |trans-title=Leuven scout in World Committee}} He was elected to the Committee at the 41st World Scout Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2017.

As a member of Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen, Deman had been East Brabant County Commissioner,{{cite web |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204202215/http://www.veto.be/jg37/veto3705/JEUGD.html |url=http://www.veto.be/jg37/veto3705/JEUGD.html |archive-date=4 December 2017

|access-date=4 December 2017 |date=25 October 2010 |title=Overal uniformen |trans-title=Uniforms everywhere |language=nl-be |work=Veto magazine KU Leuven}} later fulfilling several roles at European level.{{cite report |accessdate=4 December 2017 |via=issuu |publisher=World Scout Bureau - European Regional Office |date=24 September 2011 |url=https://issuu.com/worldscouting/docs/escreport2010_2011 |title=European Scout Committee - Annual Report 2010-2011 |author=European Regional Scout Committee |author-link=European Regional Scout Committee }}

Deman holds a master's degree in international politics from KU Leuven, and is an alumnus of Heilig Hartinstituut (School of the Holy Heart of Mary) in Heverlee. Professionally, he has worked for the European Youth Forum since 2011 as a membership and partnerships officer, and currently (2017) as a policy officer on Youth Work.{{cite news |language=nl-be |work=Het Nieuwsblad |date=28 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204204601/http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/blsme_02490553 |url=http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/blsme_02490553 |archive-date=4 December 2017 |title="Ik wil Vlaamse jongeren doen geloven dat Europa een toekomst heeft" |trans-title=I want Flemish young people to believe that Europe has a future |url-status=live |access-date=4 December 2017}}{{cite report |url=http://www.youthforum.org/assets/2014/04/Annual_Report_2013_EN.pdf |publisher=European Youth Forum |title=Annual/Report/2013 |accessdate=4 December 2017 |year=2013}}{{cite report |title=2nd European Youth Work convention - Similarities in a World of Difference |website=salto-youth.net |year=2013 |accessdate=4 December 2017 |publisher=European Youth Forum |url=https://www.salto-youth.net/downloads/4-17-3241/EYWC2015+Final+report+booklet.pdf}}{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204201621/http://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/youth-partnership/editors |access-date=4 December 2017 |archive-date=4 December 2017 |title=Youth Partnership |publisher=Council of Europe - European Union |url=http://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/youth-partnership/editors |url-status=live}}