Ieke van den Burg (ˈikə vɐn dɛm ˈbʏrx) (born 6 March 1952 in Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland, about 60 miles south east of Amsterdam, in the centre of the Netherlands. It is a regional centre and has 155,000 . The municipality of Apeldoorn, including villages like Beekbergen, Loenen and Hoenderloo, has over 155,000...

, Gelderland

Gelderland

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) is a Dutch politician

Politics of the Netherlands

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 and a former Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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. She is a member of the Labour Party

Labour Party (Netherlands)

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, which is part of the Party of European Socialists

Party of European Socialists

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, and sat on the European Parliament

European Parliament

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's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. She was also a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a member of the delegation for relations with Australia

Australia

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 and New Zealand

New Zealand

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.

Career

• First degree in psychology
  Psychology
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   (1974)
• Various diplomas in graphics
  Graphics
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   (1976-1983)
• Training and work in the graphics sector (1976-1983)
• Policy adviser, Printing and Paper Union, FNV (Netherlands Trade Union Confederation) and the FNV Women's Secretariat (1984-1990)
• Administrator, FNV (1990-1997)
• Adviser, European Trade Union Confederation (1998-1999)
• Member, SER (Social and Economic Council) (1987-1997)
• Delegate to the ILO Conference (1990-1997)
• employees' spokeswoman on the Convention on Part-Time Work (1993-1994) and the convention on Homeworking (1995-1996)
• Member of the European Trade Union Confederation executive committee (1994-1997)
• Member of the Economic and Social Committee (including Chairwoman of the Social Affairs Committee and member of the Bureau) (1994-1998)
• Member of the European Parliament (1999-2009)
• Substitute member of the Convention on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000)

External links

• Official website (in Dutch
  Dutch language
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  )
• European Parliament biography
• Declaration of financial interests
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   (in Dutch; PDF
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  file)