Carola Schouten

Carola Schouten
Mayor of Rotterdam
Assumed office
10 October 2024
Preceded byAhmed Aboutaleb
Minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions
In office
10 January 2022 – 2 July 2024
Deputy Prime Minister
Fourth Rutte cabinet (third deputy)
In office
10 January 2022 – 2 July 2024
Serving with Sigrid Kaag
and Wopke Hoekstra
Preceded byEddy van Hijum
Third Rutte cabinet (third deputy)
In office
26 October 2017 – 10 January 2022
Preceded byLodewijk Asscher
Succeeded byprolonged
Minister of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality
In office
26 October 2017 – 10 January 2022
Preceded byHenk Kamp
Succeeded byHenk Staghouwer
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
31 March 2021 – 10 January 2022
In office
18 May 2011 – 26 October 2017
Personal details
Born
Cornelia Johanna Schouten

(1977-10-06) 6 October 1977 (age 47)
's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Political partyChristianUnion (CU)
ResidenceRotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Alma materErasmus University Rotterdam
Websitewww.parlement.com

Cornelia Johanna "Carola" Schouten (born October 6, 1977 in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch politician of the ChristianUnion (ChristenUnie). She has been mayor of Rotterdam since October 10, 2024.

Schouten spent her youth on a farm in Giessen, a village in the Land of Heusden and Altena (a region in the very north of the Province of North Brabant).

She studied business administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and worked afterwards at the Social Affairs Ministry and as an assistant to the ChristianUnion parliamentary group.

In 2011 she was chosen into the Second Chamber. She participated in political negotiations in 2012 and in the government negotiations of 2017.

From 2017 to 2022 she was minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and also third Deputy Prime Minister in the Third Rutte cabinet.[1] From 2022 to 2024 she was minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions and also third Deputy Prime Minister in the Fourth Rutte cabinet.[2]

Carola Schouten is single with one child. She is a member of the Dutch Reformed Churches.

References

  1. ↑ The two other Deputy Prime Ministers were Hugo de Jonge (CDA) and Kajsa Ollongren (D66).
  2. ↑ The two other Deputy Prime Ministers were Sigrid Kaag (D66) and Wopke Hoekstra (CDA).

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