Joyce Sylvester
| Joyce Sylvester | |
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| Dutch Senate Member | |
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In office 10 June 2003 – 9 June 2015 |
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Joyce Juanita Sylvester 19 September 1965 Amsterdam |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Alma mater |
Utrecht University University of Amsterdam Free University in Amsterdam |
| Website | www |
Joyce Juanita Sylvester (born on 19 September 1965) is a Dutch politician. She is the first female mayor and the first senator of Surinam origin. Since 2009 she has been the ad interim mayor of Naarden. As of 1 January 2016 Naarden will be merged with two other cities: Bussum and Muiden. Between 10 June 2003 and 9 June 2015 she was member of the Senate for the Labour Party (PvdA).
Sylvester was born 19 September 1965 in Amsterdam. Between 1977 and 1984 she followed VWO education in Amsterdam. She earned a propaedeutics in cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 1985.
Sylvester studied communications/information management, partly at Utrecht University, and political science/government finances at the University of Amsterdam. She completed both degrees between 1985 and 1991. In 2000 she was awarded her promotion at the Faculty of Law at the VU University Amsterdam. She worked as a journalist for the newspaper Het Parool between 1985 and 1992, as a financial policy officer at the Ministry of Transport from 1992 to 1994 and the public service of the municipality of Amsterdam between 1994 and 1998.
In 2003 she was elected on behalf of the Labour Party (PvdA) in the Senate. In the Senate, she engaged in Finance, Economic Affairs, Culture and Agriculture. In the Senate elections of 2007, she kept her seat on the basis of preference votes. In 2011 she was in ninth place on the candidate and was reelected again. She resigned as secretary and joined the group directors and committee Social Affairs & Welfare and Vice-President Internal Affairs / General Affairs.
From 1 October 2008 to 31 May 2009 she was acting mayor of the North Holland town Anna Paulowna, replacing the departed Arnoud-Jan Pennink. In September 2009, Sylvester became acting mayor of Naarden after her predecessor, Peter Rehwinkel, traded his mayorship of Naarden with that of the city of Groningen.
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