Peter Schalk

Peter Schalk

Senate leader - Reformed Political Party Senate of the Netherlands
Incumbent
Assumed office June 9, 2015
Preceded by	Gerrit Holdijk
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office June 9, 2015
Personal details
Born	(1961-06-07) June 7, 1961 Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Reformed Political Party
Children	5
Residence	Veenendaal, Netherlands
Alma mater	Driestar Hogeschool (B.Ed)
Occupation	Politician, director, educator
Religion	Reformed Congregations

Peter Schalk (born June 7, 1961 in Haarlemmermeer) is a Dutch non-executive director and also a politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP). Since June 9, 2015, he has been a member of the Senate, and also Senate group leader.

Schalk studied at the reformed teachers' college Driestar Hogeschool in Gouda, and subsequently worked as an educator. Nowadays he is a member of the board of directors of the reformed Reformatorisch Maatschappelijke Unie.^[1]

Peter Schalk is married, has five children and lives in Veenendaal. He belongs to the Reformed Congregations.

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

↑ The RMU is both an employer association and a trade union.

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

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