Anne Mulder

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Anne Mulder
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Member of the House of Representatives
In office
17 June 2010 –18 September 2020
Personal details
Born (1969-12-14) 14 December 1969 (age 54)
Hoogeveen, Netherlands
Political party People's Party for
Freedom and Democracy
Alma mater Erasmus University Rotterdam
OccupationCivil servant, consultant, politician

Anne Mulder (born 14 December 1969) is a Dutch politician and former civil servant. A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), he served in the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2020, where he focused on matters of health care insurance, prevention and pharmaceutics. Since 2020, he has been an alderman in the municipal executive of The Hague.

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Education and early career

A native of Hoogeveen, Mulder studied political economy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. As a conscripted soldier he served with the UNPROFOR in Dutchbat III in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [1] Mulder worked as an inspector at the Ministry of Finance from 1996 to 2000, as a collaborator to the VVD's parliamentary group in the House of Representatives from 2000 to 2004 and as a policy advisor to the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from 2004 to 2005. Between 2005 and 2015, he also worked as consultant with public affairs firm Pauw Sanders Zeilstra Van Spaendonck (PSZVS) in The Hague.

Political career

Mulder held a seat in the municipal council of The Hague from 2002 to 2010, where he chaired the party group from 2006 until 2010.

In Parliament, Mulder served on the Defence Committee; the Committee on European Affairs; the Finance Committee; the Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Committee on Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation; the Committee on Infrastructure and the Environment; and the Committee on Security and Justice. In this capacity, he was the Parliament's co-rapporteur on Brexit from 2019 alongside Pieter Omtzigt and Kees Verhoeven. [2]

In addition to his role in Parliament, Mulder served as a member of the Dutch delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2016. As a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, he was a member of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy and a member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee). In this capacity, he served as one of the Assembly's co-rapporteurs (alongside Emanuelis Zingeris) on Montenegro. [3] Mulder was a member of a cross-party delegation to observe the 2016 presidential elections in Bulgaria [4] and the 2017 presidential elections in Serbia. [5]

In 2020, Mulder resigned his seat in the House of Representatives two days after he was appointed alderman for finance in The Hague. He succeeded Boudewijn Revis. [6] In 2021, Mulder was chosen as the VVD lead candidate (lijsttrekker) for the 2022 municipal election in The Hague. [7] On June 29, 2023, he immediately submitted his resignation as alderman of The Hague. [8]

Electoral history

A (possibly incomplete) overview of Dutch elections Mulder participated in
ElectionPartyCandidate numberVotes
2010 Dutch general election People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1,467
2012 Dutch general election People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1,204
2017 Dutch general election People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 171,293
2022 Dutch municipal elections in The Hague People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 111,874

Decorations

Honours
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Order of Orange-Nassau ribbon - Knight.svg Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau Netherlands24 September 2020 [9]

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  1. ↑ Duncan Robinson (11 July 2015), Dutch still grapple with the shame of Srebrenica Financial Times .
  2. ↑ Tony Barber (9 September 2019), EU loses patience with the quarrelsome British The New York Times .
  3. ↑ Committee recommends continuing post-monitoring dialogue with Montenegro Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of 22 June 2020.
  4. ↑ AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE OBSERVATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN BULGARIA, 6 NOVEMBER 2016 Archived 13 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of 3 November 2016.
  5. ↑ PACE to observe presidential election in Serbia Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, press release of 29 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Haagse VVD-fractie draagt Anne Mulder voor als opvolger Boudewijn Revis | VVD Den Haag". 11 April 2021. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  7. ↑ Thomas Bosman (6 September 2021), Anne Mulder gekozen als lijsttrekker van Haagse VVD: ‘Ik weet wat ik wil met de stad’, Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch).
  8. ↑ Bree, Lot van; Heskes, Brenda (29 June 2023). "VVD trekt stekker uit coalitie in Den Haag, wethouders nemen ontslag". omroepwest.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  9. ↑ "Kamerlid Anne Mulder (VVD) geridderd bij afscheid". www.tweedekamer.nl (in Dutch). 24 September 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
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