Femke Halsema

Quick Facts

Full Name	Femke Halsema
Occupation	Columnist
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1966(1966-04-25)
Age	58
Birthplace	Haarlem
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Aries

Femke Halsema Biography

Femke Halsema is one of the most popular and richest Columnist who was born on April 25, 1966 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Femke Halsema ( pronunciation (help *info ) born on April 25, 1966) is a Dutch filmmaker and politician. The 27th of June in 2018 was the day she was elected the mayor of Amsterdam and began her six-year term on the 12th of July 2018. The first woman to be elected to the office on a non-interim basis. She was previously an elected Member of the House of Representatives for the left-leaning Green GroenLinks party GroenLinks from 1998 until 2011 and was GroenLinks’ parliamentary leader between 2002 and 2010.

In 1998, she ran for the listing of GroenLinks after being wooed by Paul Rosenmoller. She was the third person listed, which made her the top new contender and almost guaranteed her an opportunity to be on the House. The seventh candidate was her former De Balie colleague Vendrik. GroenLinks increased its number of seats by a factor of eleven from 5 to 11. When she first joined the House, Halsema was spokesperson for asylum seekers, justice, and domestic affairs. Her name became famous because of she opposed the stricter laws on migration suggested by Job Cohen.

Between October 2003 and January 2004, Halsema was on maternity leave. She got twins. Marijke Vos, the vice-chair of the parliamentary party took over as party leader. After her return to the House of Representatives, Halsema started a debate about the course of the left in general and GroenLinks in particular. She claimed that her party was the last “left liberal party in the Netherlands”. She called for increased cooperation with the Socialist Party, the Labour Party and GroenLinks, aiming at a left-wing majority government after the 2007 election. She asked Labour Party leader Wouter Bos to speak out in favour of such a cabinet, but he refused in order to allow for a possible coalition of the Labour Party and the Christian Democratic Appeal. In January 2006, she was elected “Liberal of the Year” by the Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy, the youth organisation of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), because of her new political course, in particular where it came to reforming the welfare state. In June 2006, she was the only candidate for the top spot on her party’s list. During the campaign she published a book, Linkse lente (“Left-wing Spring”), co-authored by Michiel Zonneveld, which blends her political vision and personal biography. In the 2006 election the party lost another seat.

Halsema sees herself as a left-liberal. In Dutch she prefers vrijzinnig (free- thinking) over liberaal (liberal) because the conservative liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy is seen as the pre-eminent liberal party. In 2004 she started a debate within her party about a new political course. Her new course emphasises two concepts: freedom and pragmatism.

In the fall year 1997 Halsema was exiled from in the fall of 1997, he resigned from both the Labour Party and the WBS. The main reason was the authoritarian manner that the police dealt with opposition to the European summit, which was in the process of negotiating The Treaty of Amsterdam. The mayor of the social democratic party Schelto Patijn had put 500 people in detention for preventive reasons. Her discontent with the policies that was being taken by the Labour Party had grown. According to her, the party was not able to revive their social democratic manifesto or make use of the economic boom for investing in public services. After having left the WBS She worked at De Balie and was a columnist for Het Parool and for IKON radio. She is also editor for the publishing house Van Gennep.

Femke Halsema Net Worth

Femke Halsema is one of the richest Columnist from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Femke Halsema 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As of 1983 Halsema completed her studies at the Kottenpark college in Enschede with the Havo-diploma. From 1984 to 1985,, she was a student at in the Vrije Hogeschool (teachers program for Waldorf schools) in Driebergen. In 1985, she started her studying to become an Dutch and historian in Utrecht. In 1988, she ended her studies without completing. In the following year, she was employed for a year at the cafe in Utrecht cafe. She began her studies in general sociology in Utrecht University, specialising in criminalology. In the course of her studies, she held various jobs linked to her field of study. From 1991 to 1993, she was an intern in the work group “police and immigrants” at the Ministry of the Interior and she worked as an assistant student to Professor Frank Bovenkerk. In 1992, she worked as an “supernumerary lecturer in scientific methods and techniques” at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Utrecht University, teaching statistics to first-year students.

When Halsema was graduated from university in 1993 she was a member of the staff of Wiardi Beckman Stichting (WBS) which is the institute that studies the Labour Party. Her name was recognized as a rising star in the Labour Party. In 1995, she published her book Ontspoord. Opstellen about criminality and illegal behavior (“Derailed essays on criminality and the law”) to the WBS. In 1996, she travelled across in the United States as a fellow for the German Marshall Fund. In 1996, she became editor of De Helling, the magazine of the research institute GroenLinks. In the same year she began combining her work at the WBS with her work at De Balie, a political and cultural center located in Amsterdam and where she got to know Kees Vendrik who had before worked for GroenLinks as a member of the House of Representatives. At De Balie, she supervised on the initiative Res Publica on the significance and significance of the Constitution of the Netherlands for modern society. She was also a member of the committee on programme that is part of the Labour Party for the 1998 election. She also published the book Land in zicht: een cultuurpolitieke benadering van de Ruimtelijke Ordening (“Land ho, cultural- political essays about spatial planning”) with Maarten Hajer. She was invited to run in the Labour Party in the 1998 election.

In the 2002 election she was given the second place on the list. The party lost one seat. Halsema became vice-chair of the parliamentary party and among others spoke for the party in the first debate with the First Balkenende cabinet. In November of that year Paul Rosenmöller unexpectedly announced that he would leave politics. He asked Halsema to succeed him, and she immediately agreed. Ten days before the party congress she was announced as the only candidate for the party leadership and became top candidate for the 2003 election. The party lost another two seats. In addition to the party leadership she was spokesperson on areas of culture and media, healthcare, spatial planning and the environment. As party leader she had a more prominent position and put forth a number of private member’s bills, including one concerning judicial review and another that sets a fixed price for books (together with the leader of the Democrats 66 (D66) Boris Dittrich).

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Since 2011, Halsema has been President-Commissioner at WPG Uitgevers, which is among other responsible for the publisher De Bezige Bij, Vrij Nederland and Voetbal International. Since 2015 Halsema has been chair for the Trade Organisation for Healthcare for the Handicapped (VGN). Because of that office she is chair of the Executive Consultation for Healthcare (BOZ), a partnership between employers’ organisations and patients’ organisations in the realm of healthcare. In addition to this she has a number of functions in the public and private sector: between 2012 and 2014 she was chair of the Advisory Council of ASN Bank. Since 2015 she is a member of the board the Start Foundation, a fund for people who have “distance to the labour market”. And since 2016 she has been a commissioner at Independer. Additionally, Halsema has been a member of the executive of a number of non-profits: between 2011 and 2017 she was chair of the board of Stichting Vluchteling. Since 2017, she has been chair of the board of Aidsfonds/Stopaidsnow. She chairs the board of Adelheid Roosen’s theatre company and of IDFA.

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Femke Ranked on the list of most popular Columnist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Femke Halsema celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.

Immediately after her political career, Halsema joined De Volkskrant, for which she wrote number of articles and columns in 2011 and 2012. In 2013 she was involved in De Correspondent, for which she also wrote articles for two years. In 2016 she wrote her political memoir Pluche. In 2017 she wrote the Essay Nergensland. Nieuw Licht op migratie (“Nowhereland. A new light on migration”), where she proposed a utopian alternative to the international refugee question. In 2018 she wrote the essay Macht en Verbeelding (“Power and Imagination”).