Peter Ester

Peter Ester


Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 June 2011
Personal details
Born	(1953-06-05) 5 June 1953 Utrecht
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	ChristianUnion
Alma mater	Utrecht University (MA, sociology), Erasmus University Rotterdam (PhD)
Occupation	Politician, sociologist
Religion	Protestant Church in the Netherlands

Peter Ester (born 5 June 1953 in Utrecht) is a Dutch sociologist and politician. As a member of the ChristianUnion (ChristenUnie) he has been a member of the Senate since 7 June 2011. He focuses on matters of economic affairs, agriculture, social affairs and employment, finance, infrastructure, natural environment and Kingdom relations.

Ester studied sociology at Utrecht University and got promoted in economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Among others he worked at Vrije Universiteit (Free University Amsterdam), Tilburg University and Utrecht University.

Ester is married and a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN).

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

External links

(Dutch) Senate biography

Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present

Senate, 9 June 2015 - present

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 13)	Jorritsma Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Duthler De Grave <Hermans> Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Knip Krikke Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman Van de Ven

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 12)	Brinkman Atsma Van Bijsterveld Flierman Hoekstra Van Kesteren Knapen Martens Oomen Van Rij Rombouts De Vries-Leggedoor

Democrats 66 (D66: 10)	De Graaf Backer Bredenoord Engels Pijlman Prast Rinnooy Kan Schaper Schnabel Stienen

Party for Freedom (PVV: 9)	Faber Dercksen Van Hattem Kok Kops Markuszower Popken Van Strien Van Weerdenburg

Socialist Party (SP: 9)	Kox Van Apeldoorn Don Elzinga Gerkens Köhler Meijer Ruers Wezel

Labour Party (PvdA: 8)	Barth Beuving Nooren Postema Schrijver Sent Verheijen Vreeman

GreenLeft (GL: 4)	Strik Ganzevoort Lindmeijer Vos

ChristianUnion (CU: 3)	Kuiper Bikker Ester

Party for the Animals (PvdD: 2)	Koffeman Teunissen

Reformed Political Party (SGP: 2)	Schalk Van Dijk

50PLUS (50+: 2)	Nagel Van Rooijen

Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	Ten Hoeve

Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015 See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present

Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015

Senate, 7 June 2011 - 8 June 2015

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 16)	Hermans Beckers Bröcker Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Dupuis Duthler De Graaf De Grave Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Kneppers-Heynert Knip <Van Rey> Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman

Labour Party (PvdA: 14)	Barth Beuving Duivesteijn Ter Horst Koning Koole Linthorst <Meurs> <Noten> Postema <Putters> Schrijver Sent Sylvester Vlietstra De Vries <Witteveen> Van Zandbrink

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 11)	Brinkman Van Bijsterveld Essers Flierman Franken Hoekstra Van der Linden Lokin-Sassen Martens Terpstra De Vries-Leggedoor

Party for Freedom (PVV: 10)	Faber Van Beek Van Dijk Frijters-Klijnen <De Graaf> <De Graaff> <Klever> Kok Kops Popken Reynaers Sørensen Van Strien

Socialist Party (SP: 8)	Kox Elzinga Gerkens Meijer Quik-Schuijt Reuten Ruers Slagter-Roukema <Smaling> <Vliegenthart>

Democrats 66 (D66: 5)	Van Boxtel Backer Engels De Graaf Scholten

GreenLeft (GL: 5)	Thissen De Boer Ganzevoort Strik Vos

Christian Union (CU: 2)	Kuiper Ester

Reformed Political Party (SGP: 1)	Holdijk

50PLUS (50+: 1)	Nagel

Party for the Animals (PvdD: 1)	Koffeman

Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	De Lange

Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–2012

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