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State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment
Ahmed Aboutaleb was born in Beni Sidel (Morocco) on 29 August 1961.
After completing his secondary education, he attended an institute of technology, graduating in telecommunications in 1987.
He worked as a presenter for an educational television station (RVU), as a programme maker at Radio Stad Amsterdam and Radio Noord-Holland, and as a reporter for Veronica Radio, NOS Radio and RTL4 news.
From 1991 to 1994 he was a press officer at the Ministry of Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs. Up to 1997 he was head of information at the Social and Economic Council (SER) and until 1998 manager of the Communications and Publications Sector at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). In 1998 he became director of the FORUM Institute for Multicultural Development and in 2002 of the Social, Economic and Cultural Development Sector of the municipality of Amsterdam. In 2004 he was appointed to Amsterdam's municipal executive as alderman for Work and Income, Education, Youth, Diversity and Urban Policy.
Mr Aboutaleb has also sat on the Supervisory Board of the Mondriaan Education Group in The Hague, and on the Education Council. He helped to set up the Dutch Coalition for Peace in the Middle East, has been a member of the urban policy review committee, and was on the board of Babylon, a centre for multicultural studies at the University of Tilburg.
On 22 February 2007 Mr Aboutaleb was appointed State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in the fourth Balkenende government.
22 February 2007