Hans Hoogervorst

Johannes Franciscus (Hans) Hoogervorst ( born April 19 1956 in Haarlem ) is a Dutch politician ( VVD).

Life and career

By 1974, Hans Hoogervorst visited the Atheneum in Haarlem. He then studied history at the University of Amsterdam. From 1981 to 1983 Hoogervorst made ​​a study of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, an academic institution of the Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC and Bologna.

He is married and has a son.

Party

Hoogervorst was from 1978 to 1982 a member of the Partij van de Arbeid ( PvdA). In 1986 he joined the Volkspartij voor de Vrijheid Democracy (VVD ).

Member of Parliament

In 1994 he became a deputy in the Second Chamber of the States General for the first time. With his appointment as Secretary of State Hoogervorst resigned from the Parliament. From 23 May 2002 until 22 July 2002, he was again a member of the Second Chamber, before Hoogervorst held a ministerial post. From 29 January 2003 to 30 November 2006, he was the last time a deputy in the Second Chamber.

Public offices

Hans Hoogervorst was 1998-2002 State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in the Cabinet Kok II Under Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende in 2002 he was Minister of Finance. After the Cabinet Balkenende I already broke up in 2003, Hoogervorst was in the new cabinet Balkenende II Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport. The post he held also in the transition Balkenende III, before it broke up in 2007 by the 2006 parliamentary elections.

Since September 2007, Hoogervorst is chairman of the Dutch Financial Supervision Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).

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