James Emanuel Johan Willem Sharpe (born 9 November 1962 in

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

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n descent. As a member of the

Party for Freedom The Party for Freedom ( nl, Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a nationalist, right-wing populist political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 2006 as the successor to Geert Wilders' one-man faction in the House of Representatives, it won nine ...

(Partij voor de Vrijheid) he was an MP from 17 June till 19 November 2010. He focused on matters of

sport Sport pertains to any form of Competition, competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and Skill, skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to specta ...

s, infrastructure and big

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s, and was succeeded by Ino van den Besselaar. He resigned his seat in the Dutch parliament after it came out that he was in charge of the Hungarian telecom company Digitania when it received a record fine in 2008 for misleading customers. Sharpe studied

financial economics Financial economics, also known as finance, is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade".William F. Sharpe"Financial ...

at Tilburg University, participated in

hurdling Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle (sometimes known as 'burgles'), landing on both feet and checking their forward motion. Today, ...

competitions, among others for the

Netherlands Antilles nl, In vrijheid verenigd"Unified by freedom" , national_anthem = , common_languages = Dutch English Papiamento , demonym = Netherlands Antillean , capital = Willemstad , year_start = 1954 , year_end = 2010 , date_start = 15 December , ...

at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

, and performed several management jobs in telecommunications. He is married twice and lives in the Romanian municipality of

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Parlement.com biography

Freedom Party (PVV) MP James Sharpe has resigned his seat in the Dutch parliament following controversy about his past
1962 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Dutch businesspeople Dutch economists Dutch expatriates in Hungary Dutch male hurdlers Dutch people of Aruban descent Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Antilles Party for Freedom politicians Sportspeople from Eindhoven Tilburg University alumni 21st-century Dutch politicians Dutch Zionists Dutch sportsperson-politicians {{Netherlands-politician-stub