Jouke de Vries
Politician
1960 –
Who is Jouke de Vries?
Jouke de Vries is a professor at Leiden University in Leiden.
De Vries grew up in the village of Balk in Friesland and in 1979 started his studies in political science at the University of Amsterdam. He has been working at the group Leaderships Art at the University of Leiden since 1984. De Vries obtained his PhD in 1989 from H. Daudt and H. Daalder on the article he wrote on "Ground Politics" and the educational essay "Cabinet Crisis in the Netherlands".
In 2002 he was a candidate for the leadership of the Partij van de Arbeid, but got only two percent of the votes of the party members against sixty percent for the chosen leader Wouter Bos. He teaches students at Leiden University in his role as a Professor of political science. He regularly speaks to international groups of students, especially exchange students. He is currently a columnist for a Dutch language website, where he writes his own blog each week. Here he writes on recent news from the worlds of politics and economics.
Jouke de Vries is member of the board of The Hague Institute for Global Justice.
Jouke de Vries currently resides in Leiden near the University at which he teaches. De Vries is married and has two children.
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- Born
- Sep 26, 1960
Netherlands - Nationality
- Netherlands
- Education
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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