Diederik van Dijk

Diederik van Dijk
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Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 June 2015
Personal details
Born	Diederik J.H. van Dijk (1971-11-22) 22 November 1971 Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Reformed Political Party
Residence	Benthuizen, Netherlands
Alma mater	Utrecht University (LLM, law)
Occupation	Politician, director, columnist
Religion	Restored Reformed Church

Diederik J.H. van Dijk (born 22 November 1971 in Driebergen-Rijsenburg) is a Dutch non-executive director and a politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP). Since 9 June 2015 he has been a member of the Senate.

Van Dijk studied law at Utrecht University. Since 1996, he has been a policy assistant to the Reformed Political Party fraction in the House of Representatives, dealing with foreign affairs, defense, European affairs, infrastructure and environment.

In the past, he was among others chair of the Reformed Political Party election committee in The Hague, a member of the board of directors of the reformed teachers' college Driestar Hogeschool at Gouda, and an elder as well as chair of the diaconate in the Dutch Reformed Bethlehemkerk at The Hague. Nowadays he is among others a member of the supervisory board of the reformed news media company Erdee Media Groep as well as of the care facilities Sorg and Lelie Zorggroep, and an elder in the Restored Reformed Church at Waddinxveen.

Diederik van Dijk is married and lives in Benthuizen.

References

• (Dutch) Parlement.com biography

External links

• (Dutch) Senate biography