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)
- IT human capital for central government
- Logius, ICTU
- Autonomisation policy (semi-autonomous administrative bodies (ZBOs), legal persons with statutory tasks (RWTs), foundations)
- Senior Civil Service (ABD)
- 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
- 1984 – 1991
Notarial law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (not completed) - 1978 – 1984
Secondary education, Augustinus College, Amsterdam
- 2001 – 2010
Member and from 2004 leader of the VVD group on the Amsterdam municipal council - 1987 – 1998
Member, Amsterdam-Zuidoost borough council (VVD)
Served on the boards of many organisations in roles including:
- 2019 – 2021
Chair, Sociaal Werk Nederland (association of social work organisations) - 2019 – 2021
Chair of the supervisory board, Aidsfonds (Dutch AIDS fund) - 2017 – 2021
Chair, Nederlandse Atletiekunie (Dutch Athletics Union) - 2014 – 2019
Chair, supervisory board, NTR (public service broadcaster) - 2013 – 2019
Board member, Nederlandse Stichting voor het Gehandicapte Kind (Dutch foundation for disabled children) - 2010 – 2014
Board member, Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) - 1997 – 2010
Chair, De Nieuw Amsterdam (DNA) theatre company