Corinne de Jonge van Ellemeet | |
---|---|
Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands | |
In office 23 March 2017 –5 December 2023 | |
In office 18 November 2014 –9 March 2015 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Rotterdam,Netherlands | 26 April 1976
Political party | GreenLeft |
Alma mater | United World Colleges,University of Amsterdam,Smith College |
Jkvr. Corinne Elisabeth de Jonge van Ellemeet (born 26 April 1976) is a Dutch politician.
In the parliamentary elections of 2017,she was elected to the House of Representatives for GreenLeft. Previously,she was a temporary member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for GreenLeft between 18 November 2014 and 9 March 2015,when she replaced Linda Voortman who went on maternity leave. [1]
Ellemeet is a member of the noble family De Jonge van Ellemeet and as such bears the nobility predicate "Jonkvrouw". She is related to the Brandt Corstius family through her mother;her mother is a first cousin of author and linguist Hugo Brandt Corstius (1935-2014). [2] In her early youth Ellemeet lived on Bonaire. [3] Thereafter she lived most of her childhood in Wassenaar. Here she attended the highschool Rijnlands Lyceum.
De Jonge van Ellemeet won a Dutch scholarship to complete her secondary education at the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy between 1993 and 1995. She subsequently studied at the University of Amsterdam between 1995 and 2000,where she obtained an MA degree in history with a focus on recent and most recent history. In her final year she also studied American studies at Smith College. [4]
From 2002 until 2006 she worked for the Ministry of Health,Welfare and Sport. In 2006 she started a three-year period as an adjunct director of an economical programme-agency. In 2011 she became adjunct director of the cultural company Westergasfabriek,a position she held until March 2014. At that time she became network director of the Natuur- en milieufederaties. [4]
Between 18 November 2014 and 9 March 2015 she was the temporary replacement of Linda Voortman of GreenLeft in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands,Voortman went on maternity leave. [4] [5] In the parliamentary elections of 2012 Ellemeet had occupied position number nine on the GreenLeft party list. [6] As the party conquered four seats she was not elected. Three persons higher on the list than Ellemeet (Rik Grashoff,Arjan El Fassed and Niels van den Berge) declined to take up the temporary seat of Voortman. [7]
In the parliamentary elections of 2017,she was elected to the House of Representatives for GreenLeft. She took office on 23 March 2017. [4] [8]
Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg is a Dutch politician for the GreenLeft who served as a member of the House of Representatives between 2017 and 2021. Between 1999 and 2009,she was a Member of the European Parliament,and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs. In 2019 she was exposed as one of the members of the secret Bilderberg meeting.
Esther Ouwehand is a Dutch politician and former marketing manager serving as leader of the Party for the Animals and its parliamentary group in the House of Representatives since 2019. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2006 election with two interruptions.
Jesse Feras Klaver is a Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2010 and Leader of GroenLinks since 2015. Prior to this,he chaired the youth union of the Christian National Trade Union Federation from 2009 to 2010.
Renske Maria Leijten is a Dutch politician of the Socialist Party (SP),who was a member of the House of Representatives between 2006 and 2023.
Tjitske Siderius is a Dutch politician.
Gabriëlle Popken is a Dutch former politician for the Party for Freedom. She served in the Senate between 2011 and 2017 and subsequently in the House of Representatives between 2017 and 2020.
Leendert Arent-Willem de Lange is a Dutch politician. He has been mayor of Wassenaar since 18 July 2019. Previously he was a member of the House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy,serving from 31 March 2015 to 23 March 2017 and once again from 31 October 2017 to 3 July 2019. De Lange was alderman in Noordwijk between 2006 and 2013 and in Wassenaar between 2013 and 2014 where he also served as deputy mayor.
Salima Belhaj is a Dutch-Moroccan politician. She has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Democrats 66 (D66) since 26 January 2016. She previously served as a municipal councillor and group president in Rotterdam between 2008 and 2016.
Rink "Rien" van der Velde is a Dutch politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Labour Party between 25 October 2016 and 23 March 2017. He entered the House as a temporary replacement of Sjoera Dikkers. On 14 December 2016 he became a permanent member of the House when he took the place of the resigned parliamentary group leader Diederik Samsom. He has served in the municipal council of Noordoostpolder since 2010. He serves as council leader of the combination Labour Party/GreenLeft.
Martijn N. Bolkestein is a Dutch politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives between July 2020 and March 2021. He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
Kauthar Bouchallikht is a Dutch politician,climate activist and publicist. She served as a member of the House of Representatives between 2021 and 2023 on behalf of the green political party GroenLinks. Bouchallikht was the first member of parliament in Dutch parliamentary history to wear a hijab. She is also known for her activism in the climate movement.
Senna Maatoug is a Dutch civil servant and politician,who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election. She is a member of the green political party GroenLinks.
Barbara Catharina Kathmann is a Dutch politician,serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. She is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA). Before being elected to the House,she served as a municipal councilor and alderwoman in her hometown Rotterdam. Kathmann has also worked in media and at two nonprofit organizations.
Nicki Janna Francisca Pouw-Verweij is a Dutch politician. She has served as member of the House of Representatives since March 2021.
Laura Bromet is a Dutch politician of GroenLinks and a member of the House of Representatives since 2018. Her focus has been on food quality,agriculture,fisheries,nature,the Dutch nitrogen crisis,and the royal family since her re-election in 2023.
Suzanne Caroline Kröger is a Dutch politician of GroenLinks.
Elisabeth Marij "Lisa" Westerveld is a Dutch politician serving as a member of GroenLinks in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands since 2017. Between 2014 and 2017 she was a member of the municipality council of Nijmegen.
Paul Smeulders is a Dutch politician of GroenLinks.