Gert-Jan Segers
Gert-Jan Maarten Segers (born 9 July 1969 in Lisse) is a Dutch writer and politician of the ChristianUnion (CU). He has been political leader since 2015.
Gert-Jan Segers | |
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| Party leader | |
| Assumed office 10 November 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Arie Slob |
| Parliamentary group leader | |
| Assumed office 10 November 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Arie Slob |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 20 September 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gert Jan Maarten Segers 9 July 1969 Lisse, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Political party | ChristianUnion (CU) Reformatory Political Federation (RPF) (-2001) |
| Residence | Hoogland, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Leiden University, Johns Hopkins University |
| Website | www.parlement.com |
He has been a member of the Second Chamber since 2012 and a parliamentary leader since 2015.
Segers studied political science at Leiden University. He worked as an assistant to the RPF [1] parliamentary group and briefly as a radio journalist at the Dutch Evangelical Broadcasting (EO). Successively he was a missionary in Egypt for seven years, whereafter he obtained a masters in Western-Islam relations and the Middle East at the Johns Hopkins University. Afterwards he headed the scientific institute of the ChristianUnion.
Segers has written several novels and non-fiction books, and is also a columnist of the Dutch Protestant newspaper Nederlands Dagblad.
He is a Reformed Christian.
ReferencesEdit
- (in Dutch) Bio at Parlement.com
- ↑ The Reformatory Political Federation (RPF) is one of the predecessors of the ChristianUnion.
Other websitesEdit
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