Sigrid Kaag

Dutch politician, humanitarian and diplomat

Sigrid Kaag

Official portrait, 2018

United Nations Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza

Incumbent

Assumed office
8 January 2024
Secretary-General| António Guterres
Preceded by| Position established
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
In office
10 January 2022 – 8 January 2024
Prime Minister| Mark Rutte
Preceded by| Hugo de Jonge
Succeeded by| Rob Jetten
Leader of the Democrats 66
In office
4 September 2020 – 12 August 2023
Preceded by| Alexander Pechtold
Succeeded by| Rob Jetten

Ministerial offices
2017‍-‍2024

Minister of Finance
In office
10 January 2022 – 8 January 2024
Prime Minister| Mark Rutte
Preceded by| Wopke Hoekstra
Succeeded by| Rob Jetten (acting)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
25 May 2021 – 17 September 2021
Prime Minister| Mark Rutte
Preceded by| Stef Blok
Succeeded by| Tom de Bruijn (acting)
Acting
13 February 2018 – 7 March 2018
Prime Minister| Mark Rutte
Preceded by| Halbe Zijlstra
Succeeded by| Stef Blok
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
In office
26 October 2017 – 10 August 2021
Prime Minister| Mark Rutte
Preceded by| Lilianne Ploumen
Succeeded by| Tom de Bruijn

House of Representatives offices
2021‍-‍2023

Member of the House of Representatives
In office
31 March 2021 – 10 January 2022
Leader of Democrats 66 in the House of Representatives
In office
28 September 2021 – 10 January 2022
Preceded by| Rob Jetten
Succeeded by| Jan Paternotte
In office
18 March 2021 – 25 May 2021
Preceded by| Rob Jetten
Succeeded by| Rob Jetten

United Nations positions
2013‍-‍2017

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon
In office
17 January 2015 – 26 October 2017
Secretary-General| Ban Ki-moon
António Guterres
Preceded by| Derek Plumbly
Succeeded by| Pernille Dahler Kardel (acting)
Ján Kubiš
United Nations Special Coordinator for Syria
In office
16 October 2013 – 30 September 2014
Secretary-General| Ban Ki-moon
Preceded by| Position established
Succeeded by| Position abolished

Personal details
Born|

Sigrid Agnes Maria Kaag

(1961-11-02) 2 November 1961 (age 63)
Rijswijk, Netherlands
Political party| Democrats 66
Spouse|

Anis al-Qaq

(m. 1993)​

Children| 4
Education| Utrecht University
American University in Cairo (BA)
St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil)
University of Exeter (MA)
Occupation|

* Politician
* humanitarian
* diplomat

Sigrid Agnes Maria Kaag (Dutch: [ˈsiɣrɪt ˈɑxnɛs maːˈrijaː ˈkaːx]; born 2 November 1961) is a Dutch politician, humanitarian and diplomat who is the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza since 2024. Kaag most recently served in the fourth Rutte cabinet as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Finance from 2022 to 2024 and has previously served as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was Leader of the Democrats 66 (D66) from 2020 to 2023.

A diplomat by occupation, Kaag started working for the United Nations in 1994. She was Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa for UNICEF in Amman from 2007 to May 2010, when she was appointed Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau of External Relations of the UNDP in New York City.[1] From October 2013 to September 2014, she served as Under Secretary-General and Special Coordinator of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria to oversee the elimination of the country's chemical weapons program. From January 2015 to October 2017, Kaag was the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL).[2]

Kaag entered Dutch politics in 2017 as minister for foreign trade and development cooperation in the third Rutte cabinet on behalf of D66. She ascended to party leadership ahead of the 2021 general election and also served for some months as minister of foreign affairs. When the fourth Rutte cabinet was formed in January 2022, Kaag became first deputy prime Minister and minister of finance. She decided not to run for re-election in 2023 and was succeeded by Rob Jetten as party leader. Kaag resigned as minister in January 2024 to return to the United Nations as senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza.

## Early life and education

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Kaag was born on 2 November 1961 in Rijswijk as the second daughter of Frans Kaag and Agnes Kaag-Robben.[3][4] Her father, who was a classical pianist and music teacher, was originally from Wervershoof, while her mother, a primary school teacher, was from Arnhem.[4][1] The family settled in Zeist, where Kaag grew up.[4] One of her brothers died when Kaag was six.[5]

After completing her secondary education, she initially studied Arabic at Utrecht University, but later switched to The American University in Cairo where she obtained a B.A. degree in Middle East Studies in 1985.[6][7] She subsequently obtained an M.Phil. degree in International Relations from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1987 and an M.A. degree in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter in 1988.[7] She also received foreign relations training at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague, and studied at the French École nationale d'administration (ENA).[7][8]

## Career

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### Early career

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Kaag began her professional career in 1988 as an analyst for Royal Dutch Shell in London, United Kingdom.[9][10] In 1990, she started working for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she was the deputy head of the department of United Nations political affairs.[citation needed]

### 1994–2017: Career at the United Nations

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Kaag started working for the United Nations in 1994 and first served as Senior United Nations Adviser in the Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Khartoum, Sudan. From 1998 to 2004, she was Chief of Donor Relations for the International Organization for Migration and Senior Programme Manager with the External Relations Office of UNRWA in Jerusalem.[10] Working in the Middle East she was responsible for areas as the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.

From 2007 to May 2010, Kaag was Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa for UNICEF in Amman. In May 2010, she was appointed Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy of the United Nations Development Programme in New York.[9] In this capacity, she was the deputy to Helen Clark and oversaw UNDP's strategic external engagement, organization-wide communication and advocacy, as well as resource mobilization.[1][citation needed]

#### Head of the OPCW-UN Joint Mission in Syria

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On 13 October 2013, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon nominated Kaag to lead the OPCW-UN Joint Mission for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. The United Nations Security Council was set to vote on her nomination three days later, on 16 October.[11] She was then officially confirmed for the position.[12] Kaag led a team of one hundred experts who were responsible for ensuring the elimination of Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles before 30 June 2014.[13]

#### United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon

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By the end of her term in September 2014, news media reported that Kaag was rumoured to succeed Lakhdar Brahimi as UN Special Envoy to Syria.[1] On 1 December 2014, the UN Secretary-General Ban announced that Kaag would become the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL), succeeding Sir Derek Plumbly.[2][14]

In early 2017, Kaag was considered by international media to be one of the candidates to succeed Helen Clark as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and head of the United Nations Development Group;[15] the post eventually went to Achim Steiner.

### 2017–2024: Minister and D66 party leader

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Kaag addressing the United Nations Security Council in 2018 Kaag meeting with State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi in 2018

#### Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

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Following the 2017 Dutch government formation, Kaag was asked for a ministerial post by D66 leader Alexander Pechtold.[16] She was installed as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation on 26 October 2017.[14] After the resignation of Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra on 13 February 2018, she was appointed ad interim to succeed him while conserving her other cabinet position. Kaag was consequently the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. She was replaced by Stef Blok as foreign minister on 7 March 2018.

From 2018 to 2022, Kaag served on the joint World Bank–WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), co-chaired by Elhadj As Sy and Gro Harlem Brundtland.[17][18] In 2019, she joined the World Economic Forum High-Level Group on Humanitarian Investing, co-chaired by Børge Brende, Kristalina Georgieva and Peter Maurer.[19]

#### 2021 Dutch general election

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Soon after joining the cabinet, there was speculation about Kaag's candidacy for the D66 leadership, which had arisen after the resignation of Alexander Pechtold.[20] During this period, she also profiled herself by giving speeches,[21] often outside her own portfolio as a minister.[22]

On 21 June 2020, Kaag announced her candidacy for lijsttrekkerschap of the Democrats 66 for the 2021 general election, with the ambition of becoming the Netherlands' first female prime minister.[23] Kajsa Ollongren and Rob Jetten were also speculated to stand as candidates, but both refrained from doing so.[24][25] The only opponent was the unknown member Ton Visser, which resulted in Kaag winning the election with 95.7% of the votes.[26] She was elected as party leader on 4 September 2020, making her the second female party leader of D66 after Els Borst in 1998.[23] In this capacity, she led the party into the 2021 Dutch general election.[27][14]

In the run-up to the election, the VPRO documentary Sigrid Kaag: Van Beiroet tot Binnenhof was broadcast on 3 January 2021. Before this, Kaag had been followed for several years by documentary makers.[28] After the elections, GeenStijl published about the communication between the broadcasting company and D66 about the documentary, which they had obtained via a request for access to government information. This showed that D66 did have a lot of substantive requests, some of which were granted, although this was denied beforehand. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also interfered, including the broadcast date of the documentary.[29] Initially, Kaag indicated that this was not at her request,[30] but soon admitted that she was responsible for it.[31] Following this report, the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) stated that there was no reason for further investigation, as editorial independence does not appear to have been violated.[32]

D66's campaign for the 2021 general election was successful.[33] Under Kaag's leadership, D66 won 24 seats in the House of Representatives, thereby becoming the second-largest party after the VVD.[34][35] Kaag joined the House of Representatives as the party's parliamentary leader on 31 March 2021.[36]

During a lecture in the Rode Hoed debating centre in September of the same year, she voiced fierce criticism of the political culture that had arisen partly under Mark Rutte's leadership.[37] Shortly afterwards, in April 2021, she joined forces with CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra in putting forward a motion of censure to voice their disapproval of VVD leader Rutte.[38]

#### Minister of Foreign Affairs

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Due to changes within the outgoing cabinet, Kaag was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on 25 May 2021.[39] She combined this position with her position as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation until 10 August 2021.[40] Thereafter, she was succeeded as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation by another former diplomat, Tom de Bruijn.[41]

On 16 September 2021, the House of Representatives passed a motion of censure against her. A majority reproached her for the late evacuation of Dutch citizens and local civilian personnel from Afghanistan amid the 2021 Taliban offensive and Fall of Kabul. In response to the passing of the motion of censure, Kaag announced her intention to resign as minister.[42] King Willem-Alexander granted her resignation on 17 September,[43] and she was succeeded by Ben Knapen.[44]

#### Minister of Finance

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Kaag meeting with acting United States Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, in 2023

Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands Sigrid Kaag at the State Department in Washington, D.C. on November 15, 2023 (cropped).jpg

After she negotiated in the 2021–2022 Dutch cabinet formation, Kaag returned to the fourth Rutte cabinet as minister of finance and first deputy prime minister. Days before, a candidate of the Jezus Leeft party had stood outside of Kaag's home with a burning torch, and security measures were subsequently raised.[5] Trouw profiled Kaag as a typical frugal Dutch finance minister who forced spending cuts following years of economic stimulus programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. She called constant compensation untenable in the 2021–2023 global energy crisis, acknowledging citizens would collectively become less wealthy. In her role as deputy prime minister, Kaag had more leeway within the governing coalition to act as a result of frequent international trips by Prime Minister Mark Rutte.[45]

On 12 July 2023, five days after the collapse of the fourth Rutte cabinet, Kaag announced in an interview in Trouw that she would not lead D66 into the 2023 general election, due to the impact of the "hate, intimidation and threats" her family was receiving.[46][47] According to the Nederlands Dagblad, these had reached a high point when she had become leader of D66. Its article referenced public perceptions of Kaag as an elitist politician as well as PVV leader Geert Wilders calling her a witch in 2021.[5] In May 2023, during a College Tour interview, when she was shown a video message from one of her daughters asking her to leave her job because of the threats, she had become tearful.[5]

### 2024–present: Return to diplomacy

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On 26 December 2023, Kaag was announced as the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza. This was the result of the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution to boost humanitarian aid in response to the Israel–Hamas war, which had been ongoing since a Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023 and which had resulted in a siege of Gaza by Israel with significant civilian casualties and destruction as well as scarcity of resources.[48] Kaag's appointment will take effect on 8 January 2024. The UN tasked Kaag to "facilitate, coordinate, monitor and verify humanitarian relief consignments to Gaza" and to establish a UN mechanism to accelerate aid deliveries "through states which are not party to the conflict".[49]

## Honours and awards

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* 2015 – Honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Exeter[50]
* 2016 – Wateler Peace Prize awarded by the Carnegie Foundation[51]

## Other activities

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### European Union organisations

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* European Investment Bank (EIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2022)[52]
* European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Member of the Board of Governors (since 2022)

### International organizations

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* African Development Bank (AfDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2017)[53]
* Asian Development Bank (ADB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2017)[54]
* Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2022)[55]
* European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (since 2017)[56]
* Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2017)[57]
* Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, Alternate Member[58]
* Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group, Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (since 2017)[59]
* World Bank, Ex-Officio Alternate Member of the Board of Governors (since 2017)[60]
* OECD/UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), Member of the Governing Board (since 2017)[61]

### Non-profit organizations

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* P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2019)[62]
* Generation Unlimited, Member of the Board (since 2018)[63]
* International Gender Champions (IGC), Member (since 2017)[64]
* Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC), Member (2017)[65]

## Personal life

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Kaag is married and has four children.[9][1] Her husband, Anis al-Qaq, is a dentist and a Palestinian national from Jerusalem who served as a deputy minister under Yasser Arafat in the 1990s and as the Palestinian representative to Switzerland.[66][67] The couple married in Jerusalem, and they suffered several miscarriages.[5] Kaag is a noted polyglot and speaks six languages: Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German and Arabic.[13][68] She was raised Catholic and has mentioned that she practices the religion without following all of its rituals.[5]

## Electoral history

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Electoral history of Sigrid Kaag Year  | Body  | Party  | Pos. | Votes  | Result  | Ref.

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Party seats  | Individual
2021 | House of Representatives |  | Democrats 66 | 1 | 1,237,897  | 24  | Won  | [69]
2023 | House of Representatives  |  | Democrats 66  | 80[a] | 5,028  | 9  | Lost  | [70]

## Notes

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1. ^ Kaag participated as lijstduwer.

## References

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2. ^ a b "Ms. Sigrid Kaag". UNSCOL. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
3. ^ Theo Koelé (13 January 2014). "In licht van de tragedie is dit bescheiden missie" (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
4. ^ a b c Visser, Marten (23 December 2022). "Sigrid Kaag terug naar het dorp voor familie. Als de nichten appen, komt er altijd een reactie van de minister". Noordhollands Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2023.
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23. ^ a b "Sigrid Kaag kandidaat-lijsttrekker D66: 'Ik wil premier worden'". NOS (in Dutch). 21 June 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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26. ^ "Sigrid Kaag elected D66 leader with 96 percent". 🗞️ CCeit News. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
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29. ^ "Ophef rond documentaire over Kaag: wat is er gebeurd en hoe nu verder?". NU (in Dutch). 1 July 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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31. ^ "Kaag geeft toe: toch zelf commentaar geleverd op omstreden documentaire". RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 30 June 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
32. ^ "Commissariaat voor de Media: Geen onderzoek naar Kaag-documentaire". NU (in Dutch). 13 July 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
33. ^ Julen, Jeannine (17 March 2021). "Sigrid Kaag leidt D66 naar historische overwinning". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2022.
34. ^ "Winnaars VVD en D66 aan zet bij formatie, forse verliezen op links". nos.nl (in Dutch). 18 March 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
35. ^ "Prognose: VVD met 35 de grootste, Kaag knalt naar tweede plaats". www.ad.nl. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
36. ^ "S.A.M. (Sigrid) Kaag MA, MPhil". www.parlement.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 July 2022.
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57. ^ Board of Governors Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC).
58. ^ Members Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee.
59. ^ Board of Governors Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group.
60. ^ Board of Governors World Bank.
61. ^ "Governing Board - Tax Inspectors Without Borders". www.tiwb.org. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
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65. ^ Commissioners Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC).
66. ^ "La Journée de la femme chez Sigrid Kaag : pousser les Libanaises vers la politique". L'Orient-Le Jour. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
67. ^ "Holland's new deputy foreign minister called Netanyahu a racist demagogue". www.timesofisrael.com. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
68. ^ "Sigrid Kaag: Woman who's 'more man than any man'". gulfnews.com. 16 May 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
69. ^ "Proces-verbaal verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer 2021" [Report of the election results House of Representatives 2021] (PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 29 March 2021. pp. 62–100, 188. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
70. ^ "Proces-verbaal van de uitslag van de verkiezing van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal 2023 d.d. 4 december 2023" [Report of the results of the election of the House of Representatives on 4 December 2023] (PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 4 December 2023. pp. 21–22. Retrieved 21 December 2023.

## External links

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* Media related to Sigrid Kaag at Wikimedia Commons
* S.A.M. (Sigrid) Kaag MA, MPhil on Parlement.com (in Dutch)

Diplomatic posts

Preceded by

Derek Plumbly

|  United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon
2015–2017  | Succeeded by

Pernille Dahler Kardel

Political offices
Preceded by

Lilianne Ploumen

|  Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
2017–2021  | Succeeded by

Tom de Bruijn

Preceded by

Halbe Zijlstra

|  Minister of Foreign Affairs
Acting
2018  | Succeeded by

Stef Blok

Preceded by

Stef Blok

|  Minister of Foreign Affairs
2021  | Succeeded by

Tom de Bruijn
Acting

Preceded by

Hugo de Jonge

|  First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
2022–2024  | Succeeded by

Rob Jetten

Preceded by

Wopke Hoekstra

|  Minister of Finance
2022–2024  | Succeeded by

Rob Jetten
Acting

Party political offices
Preceded by

Alexander Pechtold

|  Leader of the Democrats 66
2020–2023  | Succeeded by

Rob Jetten

* v
* t
* e

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2021–2023)

House of Representatives
31 March 2021 – 5 December 2023

People's Party for
Freedom and Democracy
(VVD – 34)|

* Hermans
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* Becker
* Bevers
* Bijenhof
* Brekelmans
* Van Campen
* Ellian
* Erkens
* Grevink
* P. de Groot
* ‹Harbers›
* Haverkort
* Heerema
* Heinen
* Van den Hil
* ‹Idsinga›
* Kamminga
* Klink
* Koerhuis
* De Kort
* Michon
* Minhas
* ‹De Neef›
* ‹Paul›
* Rahimi
* Rajkowski
* Richardson
* ‹Rutte›
* C. Simons
* Smals
* Van Strien
* Strolenberg
* ‹Tellegen›
* Tielen
* Valstar
* Verkuijlen
* ‹De Vries›
* ‹Wiersma›
* ‹Van Wijngaarden›
* Van der Woude
* ‹Van 't Wout›
* El Yassini
* ‹Yeşilgöz-Zegerius›

Democrats 66
(D66 – 24)|

* Paternotte
* Belhaj
* Bergkamp (Speaker)
* ‹Van Beukering›
* Boucke
* Boulakjar
* Van Breugel
* Dekker-Abdulaziz
* Van Ginneken
* T. de Groot
* Hagen
* Hammelburg
* ‹Jetten›
* R. de Jong
* ‹Kaag›
* Kat
* Van der Laan
* ‹Van Meenen›
* Paulusma
* Podt
* Raemakers
* Sahla
* Sjoerdsma
* ‹Smeets›
* Sneller
* H. Teunissen
* ‹Vijlbrief›
* Warmerdam
* (Van der Werf)
* Van Weyenberg
* Wuite

Party for Freedom
(PVV – 16)|

* Wilders
* Agema
* Beertema
* Bosma
* Van Dijck
* Fritsma
* De Graaf
* Graus
* L. de Jong
* Kops
* Madlener
* Maeijer
* Markuszower
* E. Mulder
* De Roon
* Van Weerdenburg

Christian Democratic Appeal
(CDA – 14)|

* Bontenbal
* Amhaouch
* Van den Berg
* Boswijk
* Van den Brink
* I. van Dijk
* ‹Geurts›
* Heerma
* ‹Hoekstra›
* ‹Keijzer›
* ‹Knops›
* Krul
* Kuik
* ‹Van der Molen›
* ‹A. Mulder›
* Palland
* Peters
* Slootweg
* Vedder
* Werner

Socialist Party
(SP – 9)|

* Marijnissen
* Alkaya
* Beckerman
* Dijk
* J. van Dijk
* ‹Futselaar›
* ‹Hijink›
* Van Kent
* Kwint
* ‹Leijten›
* Van Nispen
* Temmink

Labour Party
(PvdA – 9)|

* Kuiken
* ‹Arib›
* Bushoff
* ‹G. van Dijk›
* De Hoop
* Kathmann
* Mutluer
* Nijboer
* Piri
* ‹Ploumen›
* Thijssen

GroenLinks
(GL – 8)|

* Klaver
* Bouchallikht
* Bromet
* Ellemeet
* Kröger
* Van der Lee
* Maatoug
* ‹Snels›
* Westerveld

Party for the Animals
(PvdD – 6)|

* Ouwehand
* ‹Akerboom›
* Van Esch
* Van Raan
* C. Teunissen
* Vestering
* Wassenberg

Forum for Democracy
(FVD – 5)|

* Baudet
* ‹Dekker›
* Van Houwelingen
* Jansen
* Kerseboom
* Van Meijeren

Christian Union
(CU – 5)|

* Bikker
* Ceder
* Drost
* Van der Graaf
* Grinwis
* ‹Schouten›
* ‹Segers›

Farmer–Citizen Movement
(BBB – 4)|

* Van der Plas
* Eppink
* Helder
* Pouw-Verweij

Reformed Political Party
(SGP – 3)|

* Stoffer
* Bisschop
* Van der Staaij

DENK
(DENK – 3)|

* Van Baarle
* Azarkan
* Kuzu

Volt Netherlands
(Volt – 2)|

* Dassen
* ‹Boutkan›
* Koekkoek

JA21
(JA21 – 1)|

* Eerdmans
* ‹Goudzwaard›

Den Haan Group
(FDH – 1)|

* Den Haan

BIJ1
(BIJ1 – 1)|

* S. Simons

Van Haga Group
(Indep. – 3)|

* Van Haga
* Smolders

Member Ephraim
(Indep. – 1)|

* Ephraim

Member Gündoğan
(Indep. – 1)|

* Gündoğan

Member Omtzigt
(Indep. – 1)|

* Omtzigt

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Ministers for Foreign Trade and Development Aid of the Netherlands

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

* Bot
* Udink
* Boertien
* Pronk
* De Koning
* Van Dijk
* Schoo
* Bukman
* Pronk
* Herfkens
* Van Ardenne
* Koenders
* Verhagen
* Ploumen
* Kaag
* De Bruijn
* Schreinemacher
* Van Leeuwen
* Klever

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Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

* Buys
* Gogel
* Van der Goes van Dirxland
* Röell
* Mollerus
* Van der Heim
* Van Hogendorp
* Van Nagell
* Reinhold
* Van Reede
* De Coninck
* Verstolk van Soelen
* H. van Zuylen van Nijevelt
* Huyssen van Kettendijke
* Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
* De la Sarraz
* Van Randwijck
* Schimmelpenninck
* Bentinck van Nijenhuis
* Lightenvelt
* Van Sonsbeeck
* Ja. van Zuylen van Nijevelt
* Van Hall
* Gevers van Endegeest
* Van Goltstein
* Van Hall
* Ju. van Zuylen van Nijevelt
* Van der Goes van Dirxland
* Ja. van Zuylen van Nijevelt
* Strens
* Stratenus
* Van der Maesen de Sombreff
* Huyssen van Kattendijke
* Cremers
* Ju. van Zuylen van Nijevelt
* Van Mulken
* Roest van Limburg
* Van Mulken
* Gericke van Herwijnen
* Van der Does de Willebois
* Van Heeckeren van Kell
* Van Lynden van Sandenburg
* Rochussen
* Van der Does de Willebois
* Du Tour van Bellinchave
* Van Karnebeek
* Hartsen
* Van Tienhoven
* Jansen
* Röell
* De Beaufort
* Van Lynden
* Ellis
* Van Weede van Berencamp
* Ellis
* Van Tets van Goudriaan
* De Marees van Swinderen
* Cort van der Linden
* Loudon
* Van Karnebeek
* Beelaerts van Blokland
* De Graeff
* Ruijs de Beerenbrouck
* Colijn
* Patijn
* Van Kleffens
* Van Roijen
* Van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout
* Stikker
* Beyen
* Luns
* Schmelzer
* Van der Stoel
* Van der Klaauw
* Van der Stoel
* Van Agt
* Van den Broek
* Kooijmans
* Van Mierlo
* Van Aartsen
* De Hoop Scheffer
* Bot
* Verhagen
* Rosenthal
* Timmermans
* Koenders
* Zijlstra
* Kaag
* Blok
* Kaag
* De Bruijn
* Knapen
* Hoekstra
* Schreinemacher
* Slot
* Veldkamp

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Ministers of Finance of the Netherlands

Ministry of Finance

* Schimmelpenninck
* Van Bosse
* Ossewaarde
* Van Bosse
* Van Doorn
* Van Hall
* Vrolik
* Van Bosse
* Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis
* Van Bosse
* Blussé van Oud-Alblas
* Van Delden
* Van der Heim
* Gleichman
* Vissering
* Van Lynden van Sandenburg
* Grobbée
* Bloem
* Godin de Beaufort
* Pierson
* Sprenger van Eyk
* Pierson
* Van Tecklenburg
* De Meester
* Kolkman
* Bertling
* Treub
* Van Gijn
* Treub
* De Vries
* De Geer
* Colijn
* De Geer
* Oud
* De Wilde
* Colijn
* Bodenhausen
* De Geer
* Welter
* Steenberghe
* Albarda
* Van den Broek
* Huysmans
* Lieftinck
* Drees
* Van de Kieft
* Hofstra
* Zijlstra
* Witteveen
* Vondeling
* Zijlstra
* Witteveen
* Nelissen
* Duisenberg
* Andriessen
* Van Aardenne
* Van der Stee
* Ruding
* Kok
* Zalm
* Wijers
* Zalm
* Hoogervorst
* Zalm
* Bos
* De Jager
* Dijsselbloem
* Hoekstra
* Kaag
* Van Weyenberg
* Heinen

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Third Rutte cabinet (2017–2022)

Ministers

General Affairs|

* Mark Rutte (2017–2022; Prime Minister)

Interior and Kingdom Relations|

* Kajsa Ollongren (2017–2019; Deputy Prime Minister)
* Raymond Knops (2019–2020 ad interim)
* Kajsa Ollongren (2020–2022; Deputy Prime Minister)

Foreign Affairs|

* Halbe Zijlstra (2017–2018)
* Sigrid Kaag (2018 ad interim)
* Stef Blok (2018–2021)
* Sigrid Kaag (2021)
* Tom de Bruijn (2021 ad interim)
* Ben Knapen (2021–2022)

Finance|

* Wopke Hoekstra (2017–2022)

Justice and Security|

* Ferdinand Grapperhaus (2017–2022)

Economic Affairs and Climate Policy|

* Eric Wiebes (2017–2021)
* Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (2021 ad interim)
* Bas van 't Wout (2021)
* Stef Blok (2021–2022)

Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality|

* Carola Schouten (2017–2022; Deputy Prime Minister)

Defence|

* Ank Bijleveld (2017–2021)
* Ferdinand Grapperhaus (2021 ad interim)
* Henk Kamp (2021–2022)

Health, Welfare and Sport|

* Hugo de Jonge (2017–2022; Deputy Prime Minister)

Education, Culture and Science|

* Ingrid van Engelshoven (2017–2022)

Infrastructure and Water Management|

* Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (2017–2021)
* Barbara Visser (2021–2022)

Social Affairs and Employment|

* Wouter Koolmees (2017–2022; Deputy Prime Minister 2019–2020 ad interim)

Ministers without portfolio

Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation|

* Sigrid Kaag (2017–2021)
* Tom de Bruijn (2021–2022)

Legal Protection|

* Sander Dekker (2017–2022)

Medical Care|

* Bruno Bruins (2017–2020)
* Martin van Rijn (2020)
* Tamara van Ark (2020–2021)

Primary and Secondary Education and Media|

* Arie Slob (2017–2022)

Environment and Housing|

* Stientje van Veldhoven (2019–2020)

State Secretaries

Interior and Kingdom Relations|

* Raymond Knops (2017–2022)

Finance|

* Menno Snel (2017–2019)
* Hans Vijlbrief (2020–2022)
* Alexandra van Huffelen (2020–2022)

Justice and Security|

* Mark Harbers (2017–2019)
* Ankie Broekers-Knol (2019–2022)

Economic Affairs and Climate Policy|

* Mona Keijzer (2017–2021)
* Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (2021–2022)

Defence|

* Barbara Visser (2017–2021)

Health, Welfare and Sport|

* Paul Blokhuis (2017–2022)

Infrastructure and Water Management|

* Stientje van Veldhoven (2017–2019; 2020–2021)
* Steven van Weyenberg (2021–2022)

Social Affairs and Employment|

* Tamara van Ark (2017–2020)
* Bas van 't Wout (2020–2021)
* Dennis Wiersma (2021–2022)

* Preceded by: Second Rutte cabinet
* Succeeded by: Fourth Rutte cabinet

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Fourth Rutte cabinet (2022–2024)

Ministers

General Affairs|

* Mark Rutte (2022–2024; Prime Minister)

Interior and Kingdom Relations|

* Hanke Bruins Slot (2022–2023)
* Hugo de Jonge (2023–2024)

Foreign Affairs|

* Wopke Hoekstra (2022–2023; Deputy Prime Minister)
* Hanke Bruins Slot (2023–2024)

Finance|

* Sigrid Kaag (2022–2024; Deputy Prime Minister)
* Steven van Weyenberg (2024)

Justice and Security|

* Dilan Yeşilgöz (2022–2024)

Economic Affairs and Climate Policy|

* Micky Adriaansens (2022–2024)

Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality|

* Henk Staghouwer (2022)
* Piet Adema (2022–2024)

Defence|

* Kajsa Ollongren (2022–2024)

Health, Welfare and Sport|

* Ernst Kuipers (2022–2024)
* Conny Helder (2024)

Education, Culture and Science|

* Robbert Dijkgraaf (2022–2024)

Infrastructure and Water Management|

* Mark Harbers (2022–2024)

Social Affairs and Employment|

* Karien van Gennip (2022–2024; Deputy Prime Minister 2023–2024)

Ministers without portfolio

Housing and Spatial Planning|

* Hugo de Jonge (2022–2024)

Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation|

* Liesje Schreinemacher (2022–2023; 2024)
* Geoffrey van Leeuwen (2023–2024 ad interim)

Legal Protection|

* Franc Weerwind (2022–2024)

Climate and Energy Policy|

* Rob Jetten (2022–2024; Deputy Prime Minister 2024)

Nature and Nitrogen Policy|

* Christianne van der Wal (2022–2024)

Long-term Care and Sport|

* Conny Helder (2022–2024)

Medical Care|

* Pia Dijkstra (2024)

Primary and Secondary Education|

* Dennis Wiersma (2022–2023)
* Mariëlle Paul (2023–2024)

Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions|

* Carola Schouten (2022–2024; Deputy Prime Minister)

State Secretaries

Kingdom Relations and Digitalisation|

* Alexandra van Huffelen (2022–2024)

Tax Affairs|

* Marnix van Rij (2022–2024)

Benefits and Customs|

* Aukje de Vries (2022–2024)

Asylum and Migration Policy|

* Eric van der Burg (2022–2024)

Extractive Industries|

* Hans Vijlbrief (2022–2024)

Defence|

* Christophe van der Maat (2022–2024)

Culture and Media|

* Gunay Uslu (2022–2023)
* Steven van Weyenberg (2023–2024)
* Fleur Gräper (2024)

Infrastructure and Water Management|

* Vivianne Heijnen (2022–2024)

Health, Welfare and Sport|

* Maarten van Ooijen (2022–2024)

* Preceded by: Third Rutte cabinet
* Succeeded by: Schoof cabinet

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