Eduard Bomhoff | |
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Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands | |
In office 22 July 2002 – 16 October 2002 Serving with Johan Remkes |
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Prime Minister | Jan Peter Balkenende |
Preceded by |
Annemarie Jorritsma Els Borst |
Succeeded by | Roelf de Boer |
Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands | |
In office 22 July 2002 – 16 October 2002 |
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Prime Minister | Jan Peter Balkenende |
Preceded by | Els Borst |
Succeeded by | Aart Jan de Geus |
Personal details | |
Born |
Eduard Jan Bomhoff 30 September 1944 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Nationality | Dutch |
Political party | Pim Fortuyn List (2002–2003) |
Other political affiliations |
Labour Party (1972–2002) |
Spouse(s) | Janneke Bomhoff (m. 1966) |
Children | 2 children |
Residence | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Alma mater |
Leiden University (Bachelor of Economics, Master of Economics) Erasmus University Rotterdam (Doctor of Philosophy) |
Occupation |
Economist Author Columnist Teacher Professor |
Religion | Old Catholicism |
Eduard Jan Bomhoff (born 30 September 1944) is a Dutch economist and academic. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands for the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) in the Cabinet Balkenende I from 22 July 2002 until 16 October 2002.
Bomhoff is currently an economics professor at the Monash University Malaysia Campus in Kuala Lumpur.
Eduard Jan Bomhoff was born on 30 September 1944 in Amsterdam in a Old Catholic family as the son of Jacobus Gerardus Bomhoff a Minister and professor of literature and Riet van Rhijn. The family moved in 1957 to Leiden. Bomhoff attended the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden and went to Leiden University. After earning a Master of Economics there he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1979. Bomhoff worked as a lecturer in monetary policy there. He earned the rank of professor in 1981, and served as director of the Rochester-Erasmus Executive Master of Business Administration program from 1986 to 1989. He later served as a professor of finance at the Nyenrode Business Universiteit. In addition to his academic career, Bomhoff founded the institute in 1995, an economic research institute designed as an alternative to the official Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. Bomhoff was also a columnist for the NRC Handelsblad from 1989 until 2002.