Jos van Kemenade

Josephus Antonius ( Jos ) van Kemenade ( born March 6, 1937 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch sociologist, educator, professor, politician and Minister of State.

Biography

Study and career

Jos van Kemenade came from a simple family situations. His grandfathers were a carpenter and a laborer in a bread factory. His father worked as an accountant. After attending the Catholic school Sint Nicolaas Lyceum in Amsterdam, he studied from 1955 to May 1960 education and sociology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen and finished this study cum laude.

In 1958 he became a member of Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA ), and was then to 1965 Researcher of the Institute of Sociology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. He was also from 1960 to 1965 also adviser to the Church Catholic Social Institute KASKI. After that, he was from 1965 to November 1970 Director of the Institute for Applied Sociology in Nijmegen. During this period took place on May 10, 1968 his doctorate in social sciences.

In November 1970, he accepted an appointment as professor of Sozioligische education at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, where he worked until May 1973. During this time he was from January 1971 to May 1973 and a member of the commission for the revision of the curriculum for Civic Education, and from December 1972 to May 1973 and a member of the Executive Board of the University College.

Ministers and deputy

On May 11, 1973 it appointed Prime Minister Joop den Uyl as Minister of Education and Science in his cabinet, where he remained until the end of the Uyls term of office on 19 December 1977.

On 8 June 1977 he was also a member of the Second Chamber of the States General selected ( Tweede Kamer of the States-General ), but this was only until 8 September 1977. Between January 1978 and September 1981 he was again a member of the Second Chamber, while fraction Secretary of the PvdA. In addition, he was between September 1979 and September 1981 and was a member of the Presidium of the Second Chamber.

In September 1978, he also took a reputation as a Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of Groningen and taught at this until September 1981 once a week. In 1979, he was education advisor to the UNESCO.

Prime Minister Dries van Agt called him on September 11, 1981 again as Minister of Education and Science in the government, to which he belonged until 29 May 1982. He then took from June to September 1982 the office of a true Informateurs to form a successor government. At this time, he also belonged to one of the possible candidates for the succession of Joop den Uyl as leader of the PvdA.

High school teacher and mayor

In September 1982, he accepted an appointment as professor of general and comparative school education at the University of Amsterdam, where he worked as a university teacher until August 1984.

During this time he was from September 1982 to September 1984 and again a member of the Second Chamber of the States General and member of the Group Executive Board of the PvdA. At the same time he was from June 1983 to September 1984 Chairman of the Committee on Affairs of the Netherlands Antilles.

In 1984 he was also Deputy Chairman of the peace movement Pax Christi. In September 1984, his appointment was as chairman of the Board of Management College of the University of Amsterdam. He held until March 1988 this office. He was also the April 1985-April 1987 Member of the National Executive of the Labour Party, and at times a member of the Board of Trustees of Wiardi Beckman Foundation ( WBS) and Chairman of the Education Commission. From February 1987 to 1994 he was also Chairman of the Trustees of the WBS.

From March 1988 to May 1992 he was mayor of Eindhoven. In this he was between September 1988 and February 1993 Chairman of the Netherlands Organization for Cooperation in Higher Education ( NUFFIC ). In November 1988 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Nanjing University.

In November 1989, he declined an appointment as interior minister in the government of Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers for health reasons.

Later he was from February 1990 to July 1991 and Chairman of the Commission for political strategy and culture of the PvdA party and as such, editor of the report " Een partij om te uit neighborhoods ". In July 1990 he became a member of the Kommissarsrat the Central Bank De Nederlandsche Bank, the Vice Chairman he was in 1994.

On 15 March 1991, the University of Ghent gave him an honorary doctorate in Pedagogical Sciences.

Between February 1992 and January 1997, he was also chairman of the Council for internal affairs ( Raad voor het Inland Bestuur ).

Commissioner of the Queen and honorary positions

Then he was on May 1, 1992 Commissioner of the Queen ( van de Koningin Commissaris ) of North Holland and was thus up to the April 2002 almost ten years head of the provincial government. He is also Chairman since June 1992 by the Centre for Foreign Policy (Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders, NCB) and since April 1993 Member of the Advisory Board of KPMG.

In August 1994, he declined again from an appointment as interior minister in the government of Prime Minister Wim Kok for health reasons.

Between February 1996 and December 1997 he was also chairman of the Max Havelaar Foundation and from September 1996 to 1998, Chairman of the External Project Commission " crime and integration of ethnic minorities." He was also from November 1997 to September 2001 Chairman of IPO, an organization to advise the provinces of the Netherlands.

In August 1998 he was commissioned by the government of Wim Kok to investigate the occurrence of the Dutch armed forces in Srebrenica and laid a month later a report.

Since 1999 he has been CEO of real estate company Bouwfonds fund Beheer.

Between March 2000 and May 2002, he was in addition also an honorary professor of general social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, since 2001 he is also chairman of the Institute for multiparteiliche Democracy ( IMD) and was from June 2001 to July 2009 and Chairman of the Council for Public Administration ( Raad voor het Open Baar Bestuur, ROB). Since November 2001 he is also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the University of Wageningen.

Since March 2002 he has been Chairman of the Jury of the named after him, " Prof. Dr. J. A. van Kemenade - Prijs ".

For his services he received an honorary title of Minister of State was awarded (Minister van State ) on 5 April 2002.

Between April 2002 and May 2007, he was also chairman of the Imperial Commissions of City Planning ( Rijksplanologische Commissie RPC) and environmental health ( Rijksmilieuhygiënische Commissie, RMC).

In September 2002 he became Professor of Social Sciences at the Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen.

Awards

In April 1978 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and appointed in September 1982 Commander of the Order of Orange- Nassau. In addition, he received after his retirement as Commissioner of the Queen in March 2002, the " silver penny " of the province of North Holland and the silver medal of the city of Amsterdam.

Publications

During his academic and political career, he published several books fachwissenschatliche. Among his most important publications include:

• " De katholieken en hun onderwijs " ( dissertation, 1968)
• "When de smalle Weegbree bloeit " (1979)
• " Onderwijs, bestel s insults " (1981)
• " Vragen State vrij " (1981)
• "Over onderwijs gesproken " (1983)
• "Om een werkbare Toekomst " ( co-author )
• " Geloven in de Oogst. Opstellen over onderwijs, politiek s openbaar bestuur " (1991)
• " EXPOSURE vanuit Eindhoven " (1992)
• " Ceders in de tuin. Onderwijsbeleid Over voor allochthonous " (1992)
• " Democracy as opgave " (2002)
• " Wakken in het kroos " (2003)