Bas Eickhout
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Bas Eickhout MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 14 July 2009 |
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| Constituency | Netherlands |
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8 October 1976 Groesbeek, Netherlands |
| Political party |
 Dutch:GreenLeft  EU:European Green Party |
| Alma mater | Delft University |
| Website | www.baseickhout.eu |
Bas Eickhout (born 8 October 1976) is an Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands. He is a member of the GreenLeft, part of the European Green Party. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2009 election.
Eickhout attended high school at the Cobbenhagen College in Tilburg. Between 1994 and 2000 he studied chemistry and environmental science at Radboud University in Nijmegen. During his studies he was an intern at research information centers in Nijmegen and in the United States. He also chaired the Nijmegen Association of Chemistry Students Sigma and he was a member of the Nijmegen University Council.
From 2000 he worked as a researcher at the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. He worked on several projects which had to do with transnational environmental problems such as climate change and was the institute's spokesperson on the sustainability of biofuels. He co-authored the IPCC report on climate change.
Since the 1990s Eickhout has been active in the GreenLeft, he co-authored the 2006 election manifesto and he was a candidate in the 2004 European Parliament election (#6, the party got only two seats). Between 2008 and 2009 he was a member of the committee chaired by Bram van Ojik which wrote the new party platform. He is a member of the GreenLeft delegation to the European Green Party.
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