Marja van Bijsterveldt

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

Marja van Bijsterveldt - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Marja van Bijsterveldt" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Marja van Bijsterveldt
Van Bijsterveldt in 2010

Mayor of Delft
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 September 2016
Preceded by	Bas Verkerk
Minister of Education, Culture and Science
In office 14 October 2010 – 5 November 2012
Prime Minister	Mark Rutte
Preceded by	André Rouvoet
Succeeded by	Jet Bussemaker
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 17 June 2010 – 14 October 2010
Parliamentary group	Christian Democratic Appeal
State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science
In office 22 February 2007 – 14 October 2010 Serving with Sharon Dijksma
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Bruno Bruins
Succeeded by	Halbe Zijlstra
Chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Appeal
In office 2 November 2002 – 22 February 2007
Leader	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Bert de Vries
Succeeded by	Peter van Heeswijk
Mayor of Schipluiden
In office 16 September 1994 – 1 January 2003
Preceded by	Jan Waaijer
Succeeded by	John de Prieëlle

Personal details
Born	Janneke Marlene Vliegenthart (1961-06-27) 27 June 1961 (age 63) Rotterdam, Netherlands
Political party	Christian Democratic Appeal
Spouse	Antoine van Bijsterveldt (m. 1992)
Children	2 children
Relatives	Arjan Vliegenthart (cousin)
Residence(s)	Delft, Netherlands
Occupation	Politician · Civil servant · Nonprofit director · Academic administrator · Nurse

Janneke Marlene "Marja" van Bijsterveldt-Vliegenthart (born 27 June 1961) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). She has been mayor of Delft since 2 September 2016.

Early life

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (November 2019)

Van Bijsterveldt attended nursing school and worked in healthcare.

Politics

In 1990 she became politically active for the Christian Democratic Appeal. She was an alderwoman (member) of the Almere municipal council but left her post after the mayor of Almere's expenses were investigated. Van Bijsterveldt disagreed with the way the other aldermen of the social-democratic PvdA and the liberal VVD had dealt with the matter, and following a motion of no-confidence she resigned.

In 1994 she was appointed to be Mayor of Schipluiden and at age 33, she became the youngest Mayor in Dutch history. She also was active within the CDA, first as chair of the Christian Democratic Youth Appeal (CDJA), the CDA's youth organization and later as chair of the CDA-women's council. In November 2002 van Bijsterveldt became party chair of the CDA. She was the first chair directly elected by the CDA membership. She beat the other candidate with 26,542 against 9,574 votes. She was reelected for a period of four years in 2006.

On 22 February 2007 Van Bijsterveldt was appointed State secretary for Education, Culture and Science in the fourth Fourth Balkenende cabinet. In August 2009 she made a speech in the States General about Laura Dekker, a thirteen-year-old Dutch citizen whose plans to circumnavigate the world solo caused international controversy. Van Bijsterveldt spoke against Dekker and agreed with the decision to make her a ward of court.^[1] In her recent interview with De Telegraaf, she added: ‘I am concerned about the excessive individualization in the Netherlands’, one of her next tasks before she get retired.^[2]

Decorations

Ribbon bar	Honour	Country	Date	Comment
Honours
	Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau	Netherlands	10 December 2012

References

^ (in Dutch) Van Bijsterveldt ziet solozeiltocht 13-jarige niet zitten Inhetnieuws.nl.
^ Bakker, Antonius (28 November 2024). "Van Bijsterveldt: 'I am concerned about the excessive individualization in the Netherlands'". Aaj India. Retrieved 29 November 2024.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marja van Bijsterveldt.

Official

(in Dutch) J.M. (Marja) van Bijsterveldt-Vliegenthart Parlement & Politiek

Party political offices
Preceded by Bert de Vries	Chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Appeal 2002–2007	Succeeded by Peter van Heeswijk
Political offices
Preceded by Jan Waaijer	Mayor of Schipluiden 1994–2003	Succeeded by John de Prieëlle
Preceded by Bruno Bruins	State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science 2007–2010 Served alongside: Sharon Dijksma	Succeeded by Halbe Zijlstra
Preceded by André Rouvoet	Minister of Education, Culture and Science 2010–2012	Succeeded by Jet Bussemaker
Preceded by Bas Verkerk	Mayor of Delft 2016–present	Incumbent
Academic offices
Preceded by Unknown	President of the Protestant Theological University 2013–2016	Succeeded by Unknown
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by Unknown	Chairwoman of the Ronald McDonald House Charities Netherlands 2013–2016	Succeeded by Unknown

v t e Ministers of education of the Netherlands
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
De Visser Rutgers Waszink Terpstra Marchant Slotemaker de Bruine Schrieke Bolkestein Van der Leeuw Gielen Rutten Cals Klompé Cals Klompé Bot Diepenhorst Veringa Van Veen Van Kemenade Pais Van Kemenade Deetman Braks Ritzen Hermans Van der Hoeven Plasterk Rouvoet Van Bijsterveldt Bussemaker Van Engelshoven Dijkgraaf Bruins

v t e Netherlands state secretaries for education
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Cals De Waal Höppener Stubenrouch Janssen Scholten Grosheide Van de Laar Schelfhout Klein Veerman De Jong Hermes Deetman Ginjaar-Maas Van Leijenhorst Wallage 't Veld Cohen Netelenbos Nuis Adelmund Van der Ploeg Nijs Van Leeuwen Van der Laan Rutte Bruins Van Bijsterveldt Dijksma Zijlstra Dekker Uslu Van Weyenberg Gräper Paul

v t e Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2010–2012)
House of Representatives, 17 June 2010 – 19 September 2012
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (31)	Blok Aptroot Van Ark Azmani Van Beek Berckmoes-Duindam De Boer Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé <Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink> Dijkhoff Elias Harbers Hennis-Plasschaert Houwers Huizing <De Krom> Leegte De Liefde Lodders Lucas Van Miltenburg Mulder Neppérus <Nicolaï> Van Nieuwenhuizen <Rutte> Schaart <Schippers> Snijder-Hazelhoff Van der Steur Straus Taverne <Teeven> <Weekers> Ziengs <Zijlstra>
Labour Party (30)	Samsom Albayrak Arib Bouwmeester Çelik <Cohen> Van Dam Van Dekken Dijksma Dijsselbloem Dikkers Eijsink Groot Hamer Heijnen Hilkens Jacobi Jadnanansing Klijnsma <Kraneveldt> Kuiken De Lange <Leerdam> Marcouch Monasch Plasterk Recourt Smeets <Spekman> Timmermans Van der Veen Verbeet (Speaker) Vermeij Wolbert
Christian Democratic Appeal (21)	Van Haersma Buma <Atsma> <Bijleveld> <Bijsterveldt> Biskop Blanksma-van den Heuvel Van Bochove Bruins Slot Çörüz Ferrier Haverkamp Van Hijum Holtackers <De Jager> <Joldersma> <Klink> Knops Koopmans Koppejan Omtzigt Ormel De Rouwe Smilde Sterk Van Toorenburg Uitslag <Verburg> <Verhagen> Van der Werf
Party for Freedom (20)	Wilders Agema Beertema Van den Besselaar Bontes Bosma Van Dijck Dille Driessen Elissen Fritsma Gerbrands Graus Helder De Jong Van Klaveren Lucassen De Mos De Roon <Sharpe> Van Vliet
Socialist Party (15)	Roemer Bashir Van Bommel Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen Irrgang Jansen <Janssen> Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Van Raak Smits Ulenbelt De Wit
Democrats 66 (10)	Pechtold Berndsen Dijkstra Hachchi Van der Ham Koolmees Koşer Kaya Schouw Van Veldhoven Verhoeven
GroenLinks (10)	Sap <Van den Berge> Braakhuis Dibi El Fassed Van Gent Grashoff <Halsema> Klaver Peters Van Tongeren Voortman
Christian Union (5)	Slob Ortega <Rouvoet> Schouten Voordewind Wiegman
Reformed Political Party (2)	Van der Staaij Dijkgraaf
Party for the Animals (2)	Thieme <Hazekamp> Ouwehand
Independents (4)	Groep Kortenoeven/Hernandez Kortenoeven Hernandez Lid-Brinkman Brinkman Lid-Van Bemmel Van Bemmel
See also: Members of the House of Representatives, 2006–2010, Members of the House of Representatives, 2012–2017, Members of the Senate, 2011–2015

v t e First Rutte cabinet (2010–2012)
Preceded by: Demissionary fourth Balkenende cabinet Succeeded by: Second Rutte cabinet
Prime Minister	Mark Rutte (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Minister	Maxime Verhagen (Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation)
Ministers	Piet Hein Donner (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (2010–2011) Liesbeth Spies (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (from 2011) Uri Rosenthal (Foreign Affairs) Jan Kees de Jager (Finance) Ivo Opstelten (Security and Justice) Hans Hillen (Defence) Edith Schippers (Health, Welfare and Sport) Marja van Bijsterveldt (Education, Culture and Science) Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and the Environment) Henk Kamp (Social Affairs and Employment)
Minister without portfolio	Gerd Leers (Immigration, Integration and Asylum Affairs)
State secretaries	Ben Knapen (Foreign Affairs) Frans Weekers (Finance) Fred Teeven (Security and Justice) Henk Bleker (Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation) Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten (Health, Welfare and Sport) Halbe Zijlstra (Education, Culture and Science) Joop Atsma (Infrastructure and the Environment) Paul de Krom (Social Affairs and Employment)

v t e Demissionary Fourth Balkenende cabinet (2010)
Preceded by: Fourth Balkenende cabinet Succeeded by: First Rutte cabinet
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Minister	André Rouvoet (Education, Culture and Science and Youth and Family)
Ministers	Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Interior and Kingdom Relations and Justice) Maxime Verhagen (Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation) Jan Kees de Jager (Finance) Maria van der Hoeven (Economic Affairs) Eimert van Middelkoop (Defence and Housing and Integration) Ab Klink (Health, Welfare and Sport) Camiel Eurlings (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Gerda Verburg (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) Piet Hein Donner (Social Affairs and Employment) Tineke Huizinga (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)
State Secretaries	Ank Bijleveld (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Jack de Vries (Defence) Marja van Bijsterveldt (Education, Culture and Science)

v t e Fourth Balkenende cabinet (2007–2010)
Preceded by: Third Balkenende cabinet Succeeded by: Demissionary Fourth Balkenende cabinet
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende General Affairs
Deputy Prime Ministers	Wouter Bos (Finance) André Rouvoet (Youth and Family)
Ministers	Guusje ter Horst (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Maxime Verhagen (Foreign Affairs) Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Justice) Maria van der Hoeven (Economic Affairs) Eimert van Middelkoop (Defence) Ab Klink (Health, Welfare and Sport) Ronald Plasterk (Education, Culture and Science) Camiel Eurlings (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Gerda Verburg (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) Piet Hein Donner (Social Affairs and Employment) Jacqueline Cramer (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)
Ministers without portfolio	Ella Vogelaar (Housing and Integration) (2007–2008) Eberhard van der Laan (Housing and Integration) (from 2008) Bert Koenders (Development Cooperation)
State Secretaries	Ank Bijleveld (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Frans Timmermans (Foreign Affairs) Jan Kees de Jager (Finance) Nebahat Albayrak (Justice) Frank Heemskerk (Economic Affairs) Cees van der Knaap (Defence) (2007) Jack de Vries (Defence) (from 2007) Jet Bussemaker (Health, Welfare and Sport) Marja van Bijsterveldt (Education, Culture and Science) Sharon Dijksma (Education, Culture and Science) Tineke Huizinga (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Ahmed Aboutaleb (Social Affairs and Employment) (2007–2008) Jetta Klijnsma (Social Affairs and Employment) (from 2008)

Hidden categories:

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF WorldCat
National	Netherlands