Ella Vogelaar

Who is Ella Vogelaar?

Drs. Catharina Pieternella Vogelaar was minister of Integration and Housing in the Fourth cabinet Balkenende for the PvdA from 22 February 2007 to 13 November 2008. Previously she was vice-chair of the Federation Dutch Labour Movement.

After graduating from the HBS in Zierikzee she attended the social academy in Driebergen between 1967 and 1972. In 1972 she began to work as a youth worker. In the mid 1980s she began to work for the Education Trade Union and she began to study education studies at the University of Amsterdam specializing in education policy and law. In 1987 she graduated from the University of Amsterdam and in 1988 she became chair of the Trade Union for Education. During her period as chair she prepared the merger between the social-democratic ABOP education trade union and the liberal NGLOA education trade union . In 1994 she became vice-chair of the Federation Dutch Labour Movement, as such she was member of the Social Economic Council and the Foundation of Labour. Between 1997 and 2000 she was project manager at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.