Jeroen Dijsselbloem
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His Excellency Jeroen Dijsselbloem |
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem in 2013
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| Minister of Finance | |
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Assumed office 5 November 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Mark Rutte |
| Preceded by | Jan Kees de Jager |
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Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives Acting |
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In office 20 February 2012 – 20 March 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Job Cohen |
| Succeeded by | Diederik Samsom |
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Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem 29 March 1966 Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Children | 1 son 1 daughter |
| Alma mater | Wageningen University |
| Website | Government website |
Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem (Dutch: [jəˈrun rəˈneː ˈvɪktɔr ˈɑntɔn ˈdɛi̯səlblum]; born 29 March 1966) is a Dutch politician of the centre-left Labour Party (PvdA). He has been the Minister of Finance in the Second Rutte cabinet since 5 November 2012, the president of the Eurogroup since 21 January 2013, and president of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) since 11 February 2013.
Dijsselbloem studied agricultural economics at Wageningen University (1985–1991). He served as member of the municipal council of Wageningen (1994–1997) and as member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2000–2002; 2002–2012). In 2007, he led a parliamentary inquiry on education reform.
Jeroen René Victor Anton Dijsselbloem was born on 29 March 1966 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His parents both worked in education, his father as an English teacher and his mother as schoolteacher. He was raised as a Roman Catholic.
Dijsselbloem went to a Roman Catholic primary school in Son en Breugel and the Roman Catholic secondary school Eckartcollege (1978–1985) in Eindhoven. He studied agricultural economics at Wageningen University (1985–1991), majoring in business economics, agricultural policy, and social and economic history, for which he received his academic degree of ingenieur in 1991, which is equivalent to a Master of Science degree. Dijsselbloem did research in business economics at the University College Cork (1991) in Ireland, but he did not receive a degree from this university.
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