Jet Bussemaker

Jet Bussemaker (2012)

Mariëtte "Jet" Bussemaker (born January 15, 1961 in Capelle aan den IJssel , province of South Holland ) is a Dutch political scientist and politician who is initially a member of GroenLinks and, since 1997, of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) and between 1998 and 2007 a member the Second Chamber of the States General was. In the fourth cabinet of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenendeshe was State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport between February 22, 2007 and February 23, 2010 and then Rector of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam from 2010 to 2011 . From 2012 to 2017 she was Minister for Education, Culture and Science in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Rutte .

Life

Degree, doctorate and political scientist

Jet Bussemaker first attended elementary school and then between 1973 and 1979 the public Rijnlands Lyceum in Oegstgeest and then began studying political science in 1979 with a focus on political theory in the modern state and the minor subjects international relations and contemporary history at the University of Amsterdam , which she graduated in 1986 with a thesis on the subject of political opposition in support of women ( Zielig zijn we niet. Het politieke verzet van bijstandsvrouwen ) in 1986 "cum lauda". During her studies, she was most recently a researcher in the specialist group Political Theory in the Modern State between 1985 and 1986 .

She began her professional career in 1986 as a research associate in the stimulation group for the study of emancipation in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment Opportunities and worked there until 1988. In addition, from 1987 to 1988 she worked as a researcher and programmer in the joint research group on the State of Supply, Unemployment Law and Political Potentials of the Faculty of Political and Socio-Cultural Sciences and the Faculty of Pedagogical and Andragogical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. From 1988 to 1992 she was a researcher at the Faculty of Political and Socio-Cultural Sciences and at the same time from 1988 to 1992 she was an assistant professor at the Department of General Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.

During their part-time employment from 1991 to May 1998 as a university lecturer at the Section of Political Science and Public Administration of the Free University of Amsterdam she closed her on November 12, 1993 Promotion to Doctor of Political and Socio-Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam in Professor Kees Schuyt with a dissertation on the subject of individualization, gender mainstreaming and the supply state ( Betwiste zelfstandigheid. Individualisering, sekse en verzorgingsstaat ). In 1994 she was awarded the political science prize of the Netherlands Ring for Science of Politics (Nederlandse Kring voor de Wetenschap der Politiek) .

In addition to this activity, she worked from September 1995 to December 1997 with financial support from the Recht en Openbaar Bestuur Foundation of the Netherlands Science Organization NWO ( Nederlandse Organizatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ) on a research project on political legitimation in the structuring of supply states in international comparison and completed during this time from January to August 1997 a guest research stay as a visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University .

Member of Parliament, State Secretary and Minister

Jet Bussemaker (2007)

On May 19, 1998, Jet Bussemaker, who was a member of GroenLinks between 1992 and 1995, was elected as a candidate of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) to the Second Chamber of the States General and belonged to it for almost nine years until February 22, 2007 on.

Subsequently, on February 22nd, 2007, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport in its fourth cabinet by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and as such was responsible for laws on social development, nursing and care, senior affairs until February 23rd, 2010 , Sport and medico-ethical issues. After leaving the government, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau on March 17, 2010 .

After a one-year activity as a self-employed consultant between 2010 and 2011, she was chairwoman of MOgroep (Maatschappelijk Ondernemers Groep) , the employers' association for health and social services, from January 1 to March 1, 2011 . She then became rector of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam on March 1, 2011 and held this position until November 5, 2012. At the same time, she was a member of the board of directors of the University of Amsterdam.

From 2012 to 2017, Jet Bussemaker was Minister for Education, Culture and Science in the Rutte II cabinet (Minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap) .

Publications

• Zijn we niet. Het politieke verzet van bijstandsvrouwen , 1985
• Betwiste zelfstandigheid. Individualisering, sekse en verzorgingsstaat , dissertation, 1993
• Leven na couple? Linkse visies op de derde weg , co-author R. van der Ploeg, 2001
• Haagse tegenstrijdigheden; twee jaar verder , 2004
• Daughter van een kampkind. Ervaringen van een Staatssecretaris met de oorlog in Nederlands-Indië , 2011

Web links

• CV in Parlement & Politiek
• Page about Bussemaker at the government of the Netherlands (Dutch)