Jan M.B. Cremers (May 3, 1952

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) is a Dutch sociologist and former

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of the Labour Party (PvdA) who served as a

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from 2008 until 2009.

Political and academic career

He studied organisational and development sociology at the

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, and worked as a teacher and civil servant at the

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. He was also a member of the board of the

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and director of the National Training Fund for Works Councils (GBIO). From spring 2007 until the end of 2018, he worked as a senior researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Labour Studies at the

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. In parliament, Cremers served on the

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. Currently, he is associated to the Tilburg Law School of Tilburg University (since May 2015), where he established a database on labour migration, among other things. He conducts research in the field of free movement of workers, mobility in the European labour market and the freedom to provide services and publishes regularly on European social policy, labour migration and labour standards.

Other activities

Since 2009, he has been a member of the Bundeskuratorium (Der Internationale Bund - IB). In November 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the

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for his publications on European social policy. He was involved in the creation of the

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and he is now a member of the Management Board of this institution (for the term of office 2019-2023). He is also a board member at the Dutch Expertise Centre for Labour Migrants (established in October 2020). *

(ELA), Member of the Management Board Members of the Management Board

(EMA).

References

1952 births Living people Labour Party (Netherlands) MEPs Labour Party (Netherlands) politicians MEPs for the Netherlands 2004–2009 Tilburg University alumni People from Sittard-Geleen {{Netherlands-MEP-stub