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Jacqueline Cramer

Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning

Jacqueline Marian Cramer was born in Amsterdam on 10 April 1951. 

After completing her secondary education she went on to the University of Arkansas (USA) where she studied from 1969 to 1970. She subsequently studied biology at the University of Amsterdam, graduating in 1976. In 1987 she obtained her doctorate in social sciences at the same university with a thesis on 'Missio-orientation in ecology, the case of Dutch freshwater ecology'. 

Ms Cramer was a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam from 1976 to 1989, first in the Biology and Society Department and then in the Dynamics of Science teaching and research unit. From 1989 to 1995 she was senior researcher at the Centre for Technology and Policy Studies of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (STB-TNO). From 1990 to 1996 she was also professor of environmental science at the University of Amsterdam, followed by three years as professor of environmental management at the University of Tilburg. 

In 1999 she started working as a freelance environmental consultant. She was also professor of environmental management in organisations at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam from 1999 to 2005, and, until 2007, professor of sustainable enterprise at the University of Utrecht's Copernicus Institute. 

Ms Cramer was a crown-appointed member of the Social and Economic Council. She has also been a member of the supervisory board of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the University of Maastricht and Arnhem-Nijmegen University, the Council for Transport, Public Works and Water Management, the Council for Environmental and Nature Conservation Research and the supervisory committee of the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment and chair of the Residents and Sustainable Construction Forum. She has been a member of the supervisory boards of a number of organisations, including Shell Nederland, ASN Bank and the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO).

On 22 February 2007 Ms Cramer was appointed Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning in the fourth Balkenende government.

22 February 2007