Ed Nijpels

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Eduardus Hermannus Theresia Maria Nijpels (born 1 April 1950) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and nonprofit director.[1][2]

Biography

Nijpels studied Civil law at the Utrecht University obtaining a Master of Studies in Law degree. Nijpels served as chairman of the political youth organisation JOVD from February 1974 until November 1975. Nijpels worked as a civics teacher in Roosendaal from August 1974 until June 1977. After the election of 1977 Nijpels was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives on 8 June 1977 serving as a frontbencher chairing the House Committee on Law enforcement and spokesperson for Justice and the Ombudsman. After the Party Leader and Parliamentary leader Hans Wiegel announced he was stepping down he endorsed Nijpels as his successor and he was anonymously selected as his successor on 20 April 1982.

For the elections of 1982 Nijpels served as Lijsttrekker (top candidate) and following a cabinet formation with Christian-democratic Leader Ruud Lubbers formed the Cabinet Lubbers I with Nijpels opting to remain as Parliamentary leader. For the election of 1986 Nijpels again served as Lijsttrekker but shortly thereafter announced that he was stepping down following disappointed election results on 9 July 1986. After a cabinet formation the coalition continued and Nijpels was appointed Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Cabinet Lubbers II taking office on 14 July 1986. After the election of 1989 Nijpels returned to the House of Representatives on 14 September 1989 and served as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Spatial Planning and the Environment. In March 1990 Nijpels was nominated as the Mayor of Breda serving from 1 April 1990 until 1 July 1995 when he was appointed director-general for the Arbodienst of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. In December 1998 Nijpels was nominated as the next Queen's Commissioner of Friesland serving from 1 January 1999 until 1 May 2008.

Nijpels semi-retired from active politics and became active in the private and public sectors as a corporate and non-profit director and served on several state commissions and councils on behalf of the government, and works as a trade association executive serving as Chairman of the Koninklijke NLingenieurs from May 2008 until May 2015, the GeoBusiness association since September 2009 and for the Industry and Employers confederation (VNO-NCW) from July 2008 until March 2015 and became a Member of the Social and Economic Council in August 2014. Nijpels continues to be active an advocate, lobbyist and activist for Environmentalism, Sustainable development, Conservation and Climate change.[3][4]

Decorations

Honours
Ribbon bar Honour Country Date Comment
File:NLD Order of the Dutch Lion - Knight BAR.png Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Netherlands 20 November 1989
File:Order of Orange-Nassau ribbon - Commander.svg Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau Netherlands 20 May 2008

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Official
Party political offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Lijsttrekker of the
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
1982 • 1986 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Leader of the People's Party
for Freedom and Democracy
1982–1986 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Parliamentary leader of the
People's Party for
Freedom and Democracy
in the House of Representatives
1982–1986 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Minister of Housing, Spatial
Planning and the Environment
1986–1989 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Mayor of Breda
1990–1995 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Queen's Commissioner of Friesland
1999–2008 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Civic offices

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Unknown Director-General of the
Arbodienst
of the Ministry of Social Affairs
and Employment
1995–1999 Template:S-ttl/check 		Unknown
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
Cadastre Agency
2001–2009 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
Probation Agency
2007–2017 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of
Public Pension Funds APB
2009–2010 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
Environment Central Foundation
2015–present Template:S-ttl/check 		Incumbent
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
Climate Council
2018–present Template:S-ttl/check
Business positions

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Unknown Vice Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
DSB Bank
2004–2009 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
Bosschap association
2008–2014 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Engineering association
2008–2015 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
GeoBusiness association
2009–present Template:S-ttl/check 		Incumbent
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Executive Board of the
Youth Organisation Freedom
and Democracy
1974–1975 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of the
World Wide Fund for
Nature Netherlands
1990–1999 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of
Ronald McDonald House
Charities Netherlands
1997–2013 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of
International Architecture
Biennal Rotterdam
2011–present Template:S-ttl/check 		Incumbent
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of
ProDemos
2018–present Template:S-ttl/check
Media offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of
TROS
2008–2014 Template:S-ttl/check 		Organisation merged
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chairman of the
Supervisory board of
AVROTROS
2014–present Template:S-ttl/check 		Incumbent

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