Diederik J.H. van Dijk (born 22 November 1971 in

Driebergen-Rijsenburg Driebergen-Rijsenburg is a town in the municipality Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It is the home of Michelin starred restaurant La Provence. Transportation *Driebergen-Zeist railway station ...

) is a Dutch

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and a politician of the

Reformed Political Party The Reformed Political Party ( nl, Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij, SGP) is a conservative CalvinistThese sources describe the SGP as a Calvinist political party: * * * * * political party in the Netherlands. The term ''Reformed'' is not a refere ...

(SGP). Since 9 June 2015 he has been a member of the

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. Van Dijk studied law at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

. Since 1996, he has been a policy assistant to the Reformed Political Party fraction in the

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, 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

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teachers' college Driestar Hogeschool at Gouda, and an elder as well as chair of the

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in the

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Bethlehemkerk at The Hague. Nowadays he is among others a member of the supervisory board of the Reformed news media company

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as well as of the care facilities

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and Lelie Zorggroep, and an elder in the

Restored Reformed Church The Restored Reformed Church ( nl, Hersteld Hervormde Kerk, abbreviated HHK) is a Calvinist denomination in the Netherlands. It was founded in 2004, from congregations which made up the orthodox-reformed wing of the Dutch Reformed Church; t ...

Waddinxveen Waddinxveen () is a town and municipality along the Gouwe (river), Gouwe river in the western Netherlands in the province of South Holland near Gouda, South Holland, Gouda. The municipality had a population of in and covers an area of of which ...

. Diederik van Dijk is married and lives in

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References

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Parlement.com biography

External links

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Senate biography
1971 births Living people Deacons Dutch columnists Dutch corporate directors Dutch jurists Members of the Senate (Netherlands) People from Driebergen-Rijsenburg Reformed Political Party politicians Dutch Calvinist and Reformed Christians Utrecht University alumni {{Netherlands-politician-stub