Berend Jan Odink (18 August 1944 - 29 April 2018) was Dutch politician and nature conservationist who served as an MP in the House of Representatives for the
Pim Fortuyn List
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(LPF) from 2002 to 2003. He served as Secretary of Ttate for Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Fisheries in the
first Balkenende cabinet
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.
Odink studied agriculture at Wageningen University and worked for the Product Board for Livestock and Meat. He was a member of the
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
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but left the party as he felt it had lost its original identity after collaborating in the purple coalition with the PvdA under
Wim Kok
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Seychelles
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