Esmé Wiegman
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Emma Eleonora (Esmé) Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink (born 24 July 1975 in Haarlem) is a former Dutch politician. As a member of the ChristianUnion (ChristenUnie) she was an MP from 1 March 2007 to 19 September 2012. She focused on matters of the European Union, public health, welfare, sports, spatial planning and natural environment.
Biography
Education and activities
Wiegman studied Dutch language and Dutch literature with a specialization in modern Dutch and Dutch East Indies literature at Leiden University. After finishing her study she worked as an editor for publishers and a magazine.
Wiegman became an active member of the youth organisation of the Reformatory Political Federation (RPF) in 1989, later she became a board member of the RPF itself. After the RPF merged into the ChristianUnion in 2002, Wiegman was elected a local representative in the council of her hometown Zwolle.
Political career
In the 2007 national elections she was elected first runner-up for the lower house of Netherlands' Parliament. After the ChristianUnion became a participant in the newly formed fourth Balkenende cabinet - and two representatives taking positions in that cabinet - Wiegman became a member of Parliament in March 2007. Her term ended in September 2012.
After politics
She found a new position with the Template:Interlanguage link (LHV) as regional manager for the North (Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Zwolle/Flevoland). On February 1, 2014, she became director of the Template:Interlanguage link.[1] She left that position on March 1, 2018, to become the director of the Cooperative Palliative Care Netherlands.[2]
Personal life
Esmé Wiegman is married, mother of three and a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
References
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- Living people
- Christian Union (Netherlands) politicians
- Leiden University alumni
- Dutch MPs 2010–2012
- Dutch MPs 2006–2010
- Municipal councillors of Zwolle
- Politicians from Haarlem
- Protestant Church Christians from the Netherlands
- Reformatory Political Federation politicians
- 21st-century Dutch women politicians