Eric van der BurgMinister for Kingdom Relations and Effective Government
Born on 9 October 1965 in Amsterdam, unmarried, 2 children
Party: People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
Bonaire, St Eustatius, Saba, Curaçao, Aruba and St Maarten make our Kingdom so much more than a small country on the North Sea coast. Together we are working to cultivate a positive society and a strong economy, on both sides of the ocean. To achieve that, everyone must be able to rely on their government to listen and deliver. Straightforward, feasible and predictable: that’s the kind of effective government I’m committed to.
Effective government, modernisation and retrenchment in central government civil service
Reducing regulatory burden (retrenchment programme and cutting 500 rules)
Member of government responsible for coordinating the Working on Implementation programme (WaU)
Central government Chief Information Officer (CIO-Rijk)
Central government information security
ICT Shared Service Centre (SSC-ICT)
Open Government Act
Public access to government information and information management
Open Government programme, Advisory Board on Open Government and Information Management (ACOI), Information Management Shared Service Centre (RvIHH), Shared Service Organisation for Development, Digitalisation and Innovation (ODI)
Identity documents (e.g. passports and national identification cards), Municipal Records Database and National Office for Identity Data
Coordination of AI within central government
Accessible and human-centred digital service provision, general digital infrastructure (GDI)
Central Government Civil Service and shared service organisations (SSOs)
Restricting regulatory burden on citizens
Top Incomes (Standardisation) Act (WNT)
Kingdom relations
23 February 2026
Appointed Minister for Kingdom Relations and Effective Government in the Jetten government
6 December 2023 – 23 February 2026
Member of the House of Representatives for the VVD
10 January 2022 – 2 July 2024
Appointed Minister for Migration in the fourth Rutte government
11 June 2019 – 10 January 2022
Member of the Senate for the VVD; party spokesperson on the interior, immigration & asylum, Kingdom relations, and health, welfare & sport
2018 – 2019
Member and leader of the VVD group on Amsterdam municipal council
2010 – 2018
Member of Amsterdam municipal executive, with responsibility for care & welfare, sport & recreation, older people, spatial planning and land development; in 2017 temporarily first deputy mayor
1997 – 2010
Director of the older people’s care and disability care organisation now known as Amstelring
1992 – 1997
Member of the Amsterdam-Zuidoost borough executive, with responsibility for welfare and sport
