Laurens Jan Brinkhorst

Laurens Jan Brinkhorst


Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 11 May 1973 – 8 September 1977
Prime Minister	Joop den Uyl
Deputy Prime Minister
In office 31 March 2005 – 7 July 2006
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Gerrit Zalm Thom de Graaf
Succeeded by	Gerrit Zalm
Minister of Economic Affairs
In office 27 May 2003 – 7 July 2006
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink
Succeeded by	Joop Wijn
Personal details
Born	Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (1937-03-18) 18 March 1937 Zwolle, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	D66
Spouse(s)	Jantien Heringa
Children	Marius Brinkhorst Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
Alma mater	Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
Occupation	Politician
Website	D66 Biography

Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (born 18 March 1937 in Zwolle) is a Dutch D66 politician. Brinkhorst was an Undersecretary of State of foreign affairs and a Minister of agriculture. Furthermore, he was the leader of the D66-group in the Second Chamber of the Dutch parliament. He was also a minister of economic affairs in the second Balkenende cabinet. Journalists gave him the nickname Brilly the kid.

Personal life

Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst was born in the city of Zwolle. After getting his high school diploma (gymnasium-B-diploma in Dutch) he studied law at the University of Leiden (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in Dutch) (doctoral exam in 1959). He got his MA in Public Law and Government at Columbia University in New York City. Afterwards he worked at Shearman & Sterling in New York City. He married Jantien Heringa (born 2 February 1935 in Voorburg), daughter of Ewardus Heringa (Den Haag, 14 November 1904 - Den Haag, 30 November 1988) and wife (m. Utrecht, 4 August 1930) Petronela Johanna Roskam (Utrecht, 20 August 1905 - Den Haag, 19 December 1991). They are the parents of Marius Brinkhorst (born 9 February 1964) and the Dutch princess Laurentien Brinkhorst, who married Prince Constantijn in 2001.^[1]

Career in politics and academia

Staatssecretaris Brinkhorst talks with the second chamber members of his party during the cabinets formation of 1977.

From 1962, and from 1965 as a director, he worked at the Europe-institute at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden where he became a Reader (Lector) in 1965 as well. During the period 1967-1973 he was Professor of European Law at the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in Dutch). On 11 May 1973, he became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of Den Uyl.

In 1977 he was again a member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch parliament for D66 and in 1981 became the leader of his party in parliament. From 1983-1987 he was Ambassador of the European Community in Japan. In 1987 he became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2] In 1994 Brinkhorst became a member of the European Parliament, serving there until 1999.

Brinkhorst was also a member of the Provinciale Staten (the provincial parliament) of the province of Groningen for D66, a member of the board of advice of the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, a member of the board of governors of the Nederlands Economisch Instituut (Dutch Economical Institute), a professor by special appointment of international environmental law at the University of Leiden, a member of the Board of Directors of the Salzburg Seminar, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Sustainable Development, and a professor (on a temporary basis) of international environmental law at the University of Lausanne.

On 8 June 1999 he became the minister of agriculture, environmental control and fishery in the cabinet Kok-II. Afterwards (2002) he became an Adviser of European Affairs at NautaDulith in Brussels and was awarded a professorship in transnational and European Governance at the University of Tilburg. After the electoral defeat of D66 he became a minister of economic affairs in the second Balkenende cabinet. Brinkhorst, as well as Alexander Pechtold, resigned from his minister post after the second Balkenende cabinet lost the confidence of parliament on 29 June 2006. The next day, Balkenende offered the resignation of the full cabinet to the Dutch Queen.

Since 1 November 2006, Brinkhorst is a full professor at the Leiden University. Brinkhorst is also a member of the Bilderberg Group.In addition, he is the vice-chairman of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation. Also, he is on the advisory board of OMFIF where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.

Honours

National Honours

Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (Netherlands, 11 April 1978).
Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands, 10 December 2002).

Foreign honours

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy, 23 October 1973).^[3]
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, for his services as Ambassador (Japan, 29 April 2009).^[4]
He also received several honours from Denmark, Belgium, France, Austria, Luxembourg and Poland.

References

↑ Geneall
↑ "Laurans Jan Brinkhorst". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
↑ Quirinale website
↑ Japan Today

Political offices
Preceded by Gerrit Zalm Thom de Graaf	Deputy Prime Minister 31 March 2005–7 July 2006 With: Gerrit Zalm 2005–2006	Succeeded by Gerrit Zalm
Preceded by Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink	Minister of Economic Affairs 27 May 2003–7 July 2006	Succeeded by Joop Wijn

Deputy Prime Ministers of the Netherlands

Drees Van Schaik Teulings Beel Struycken Korthals Biesheuvel Vondeling De Quay Witteveen Bakker Nelissen Geertsema Van Agt De Gaay Fortman Wiegel Den Uyl Terlouw Van Aardenne De Korte Kok Dijkstal Van Mierlo Jorritsma Borst Bomhoff Remkes De Boer Zalm De Graaf Brinkhorst Bos Rouvoet Verhagen Asscher

Ministers of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands

Ministry of Economic Affairs

Tak van Poortvliet Klerck Van den Bergh Tromp Bastert Havelaar Lely Van der Sleijden De Marez Oyens Kraus Veegens Talma Treub Posthuma Van IJsselsteyn Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Aalberse Koolen Slotemaker de Bruïne Verschuur Colijn Steenberghe Gelissen Steenberghe Colijn Steenberghe Van den Tempel Kerstens Van den Broek Gispen Vos Huysmans Mansholt Van den Brink Zijlstra De Pous Andriessen Den Uyl Bakker De Block De Jong Nelissen Langman Lubbers Van Aardenne Terlouw Van Aardenne De Korte Andriessen Wijers Jorritsma Heinsbroek Hoogervorst Brinkhorst Zalm Wijn Van der Hoeven Verhagen Kamp

Ministers of Agriculture of the Netherlands

Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality

Mansholt Staf Vondeling Staf Marijnen Biesheuvel Lardinois Boersma Brouwer Van der Stee Braks De Koning Braks De Vries Bukman Van Aartsen Apotheker Brinkhorst Veerman Verburg Verhagen

Second Kok cabinet (1998–2002)

^{Preceded by: First Kok cabinet · Succeeded by: First Balkenende cabinet}

Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)

Deputy Prime Ministers	Annemarie Jorritsma (Economic Affairs) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport)

Ministers	Bram Peper (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (1998–2000) Roger van Boxtel (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (acting) Klaas de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (2000–2002) Jozias van Aartsen (Foreign Affairs) Gerrit Zalm (Finance) Benk Korthals (Justice) Frank de Grave (Defence) Loek Hermans (Education, Culture and Science) Tineke Netelenbos (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Haijo Apotheker (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1998–1999) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1999–2002) Klaas de Vries (Social Affairs and Employment) (1998–2000) Willem Vermeend (Social Affairs and Employment) (2000–2002) Jan Pronk (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

Minister without portfolio	Roger van Boxtel (Large Cities and Integration) Eveline Herfkens (Development Cooperation)

State Secretaries	Gijs de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Dick Benschop (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) (1998–2000) Wouter Bos (Finance) (2000–2002) Job Cohen (Justice) (1998–2000) Ella Kalsbeek (Justice) (2001) Gerrit Ybema (Economic Affairs) Henk van Hoof (Defence) Margo Vliegenthart (Health, Welfare and Sport) Karin Adelmund (Education, Culture and Science) Rick van der Ploeg (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Geke Faber (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries Hans Hoogervorst (Social Affairs and Employment) Annelies Verstand (Social Affairs and Employment) Johan Remkes (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 46844860 ISNI: 0000 0001 1026 143X SUDOC: 033051070 BNF: cb12395676x (data)

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