Corien Wortmann-Kool

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Corien Wortmann-Kool

C.M. (Corien) Wortmann-Kool (born 27 June 1959 in

VU University Amsterdam
.

Wortmann-Kool has been chairing the Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP since 1 January 2015.

Career

Wortmann-Kool started her political career in the board of the youth organization of the CDA. From 1987 until 1994, she was a member of the executive board of the CDA party. During the municipal elections of 1994, she was elected as council member of the municipal council in her town of residence, Zeist. In 1995, she became Chair of the CDA delegation in the municipal council, from which she retired in 1999.

From 1996 onwards, Wortmann-Kool worked at the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management where she served as senior policy advisor and project leader on projects related to the governance of the Public Sector. From 2001, she served as deputy and acting Director for Transport and Infrastructure. Prior to this she was Member of the executive board of a retail company.

Member of the European Parliament

In 2004, Wortmann-Kool became a Member of the European Parliament for the EPP Group, of which the Dutch

ECOFIN
) Council meetings.

In the European Parliament, Wortmann-Kool served on the

Committee on International Trade and rapporteur for trade relations between the EU and China. She represented the Parliament at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.[2]

In addition to her parliamentary work, Wortmann-Kool served as vice-president of the European People's Party from 2007. In this capacity, she participated in the Monthly EPP summits of Heads of State and Government. She also chaired the EPP Working Group on enlargement (relations with centre-right parties from non-EU countries from

Balkan and Caucasus; accession of new member parties EU and non-EU). She served as co-chair of the EPP Working Group on Economic and Social Policy since 2016, alongside Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs and Data Protection Dara Murphy.[3]

Other activities

In addition to her political work, Wortmann-Kool holds several board memberships, including the following:

Personal life

Corien Wortmann-Kool is married and has a son and a daughter. She lives in Zeist, the Netherlands.

Career

  • Bachelor's degree in nursing (1976–1981)
  • Master's degree in political science, Free University of Amsterdam (1981–1987)
  • Member of the management team in a retail company (1987–1996)
  • Coordinator/senior adviser at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (1996–2001)
  • Deputy Director of Transport and Infrastructure at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (2001–2004)
  • Member of the administrative committee of the CDA youth organisation (CDJA) (1981–1984)
  • Member of the CDA administrative committee (1987–1994)
  • Member of the CDA Committee on Foreign Affairs (2003–2004)
  • Member of the EPP political bureau (1989–1994)
  • Member of the Zeist
    Municipal Council
    for the CDA and group chairwoman (1994–1999)
  • 'Zon en Schild' Psychiatric Centre, Amersfoort, Vice-chairwoman of the Supervisory Council (1990–1999)
  • Chairwoman of the Parents Association, Comenius School, Zeist (1993–1997)

References

  1. ^ "Corien Wortmann keert niet terug in Europarlement". CDA - CDA Europees Parlement (in Dutch). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. ^ The EP's official delegation to the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change European Parliament.
  3. European People’s Party
    (EPP), press release of 29 January 2016.
  4. ^ Membership Archived 1 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine Trilateral Commission.

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