Alexander Tchernoff

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Alexander Tchernoff (born January 14, 1942 in Batavia (Dutch East Indies) ) is a Dutch local politician of the right-wing liberal VVD .

Tchernoff's father came from Ukraine and after studying agriculture he worked at the Wageningen agricultural college in the Dutch East Indies , where Alexander Tchernoff was born in 1942. Alexander Tchernoff studied law at the University of Leiden until 1967 and then joined the Dutch Ministry of the Interior as a civil servant. In 1983 he was appointed mayor of the municipality of Eelde , in 1991 he moved to the town of De Bilt as mayor and remained in this position until his retirement in 2007.

Alexander Tchernoff was a member of the Dutch delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and from 1994 to 1996 President of the Congress. During his term of office, the permanent conference of the municipalities and regions of Europe was reorganized in the Congress of the Municipalities and Regions of Europe and with it the institutional upgrading of this body of the Council of Europe .

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SURNAME Tchernoff, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Batavia (Dutch East Indies)