Jacqueline Cramer | |
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Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (Netherlands) | |
In office February 22, 2007 – February 23, 2010 |
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Prime Minister | Jan Peter Balkenende |
Preceded by | Pieter Winsemius |
Succeeded by | Tineke Huizinga |
Personal details | |
Born |
Jacqueline Marian Cramer 10 April 1951 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Nationality | Dutch |
Political party | PvdA |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Occupation |
Professor Politician |
Jacqueline Marian Cramer (born April 10, 1951 in Amsterdam) was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet for the PvdA. Previously she was a professor of sustainable entrepreneurship at Utrecht University and professor of environmental management at Erasmus University. She is member of the Board of directors at Royal Dutch Shell and a member of the Social-Economic Council.Eisenhower Fellowships selected Jacqueline Cramer in 1992 to represent The Netherlands.
Cramer studied biology in Arkansas and at the University of Amsterdam. In 1987 she obtained her Ph.D. with Mission-orientation in Ecology. The Case of Dutch Fresh-water Ecology, with honours.
She has two children and lives in Amsterdam.