Jan de Wit
Jan de Wit | |
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Member of the Senate | |
| In office 13 June 1995 – 19 May 1998 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Johannes Marijnus Antonius Maria de Wit 10 May 1945 Zevenbergen, Netherlands |
| Political party | Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij - SP) |
| Spouse | Riet de Wit |
| Residence(s) | Heerlen, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Tilburg University (LLM - Public law) |
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| Website | (in Dutch) Socialist Party website |
Johannes Marijnus Antonius Maria "Jan" de Wit (born 10 May 1945) is a former Dutch politician and lawyer. As a member of the
Biography
de Wit studied public law at Tilburg University. For a brief time, he worked as a lawyer in Eindhoven and thereafter for many years in Maastricht and Heerlen.
In 1972, he joined the Socialist Party, which had just been founded in 1971. From 1972 to 1996, he was a local party executive, and from 1988 to 1992, he was also a party executive on the national level. Furthermore, he was an SP councillor of Heerlen from 1982 to 1995 and chairman of SP's think tank foundation until 1997.
In 1995, de Wit was elected into the
As an MP, de Wit was a member of the
From 24 June 2009 to October 2010 de Wit was the chairman of the Temporary Committee on Financial System Inquiry, which was to investigate the causes of the credit crisis.
Personal life
de Wit is married to
References
- (in Dutch) Parlement.com biography
External links
- (in Dutch) House of Representatives of the Netherlands
