Go to (on this page): content, search field of menu.
U bevindt zich op: Home › Government › Balkenende IV Government
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Youth and Families
André Rouvoet was born in Hilversum on 4 January 1962.
After completing his secondary education, he went on to study law at the VU University, Amsterdam. He specialised in the philosophy of law and politics, graduating in 1986.
Between 1985 and 1986 he was on the staff of the Reformed Political Federation (RPF) parliamentary party, after which he worked for a year as a policy officer for a special education and youth healthcare organisation. In 1987 he joined the Marnix van St. Aldegonde Foundation (the RPF's think tank), becoming its director in 1989.
Mr Rouvoet joined the House of Representatives in 1994, initially representing the RPF. Since 2001 he has represented the Christian Union, a party that resulted from a political merger between the RPF and the Reformed Political Association. He has led the Christian Union parliamentary party since 2002.
Besides teaching political science at the Evangelical School of Journalism in Amersfoort, Mr Rouvoet has also chaired the Dutch Reformed Churches' Youth Welfare Association, and has sat on the board of the Protestant Children's Homes Foundation and the Foundation for the New South Africa, and on the synodal committee of delegates that liaises between the government and the Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.
On 22 February 2007, Mr Rouvoet was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Youth and Families in the fourth Balkenende government.
22 February 2007