Mustafa Amhaouch (born 27 June 1970) is a Dutch politician, he has been a member of the

House of Representatives of the Netherlands The House of Representatives (, pronounced ; commonly referred to as the ', literally "Second Chamber of the States General") is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate. ...

for the

Christian Democratic Appeal The Christian Democratic Appeal ( nl, Christen-Democratisch Appèl, ; CDA) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands. It was originally formed in 1977 from a confederation of the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary ...

since 12 January 2016, when he replaced Peter Oskam. Previously he served as municipal councillor in

Helden Helden (; li, Helje) is a former municipality and a village in the southeastern Netherlands, located in the province of Limburg. In January 2010 Helden joined with other municipalities to form the new municipality of Peel en Maas. History The ...

between 1997 and 2006.

Career

Amhaouch was born on 27 June 1970 in

Panningen Panningen (; li, Kepèl) is a Dutch town with a population of 7,618 inhabitants (2020) and is the biggest village of the municipality Peel en Maas. It is centrally located between the cities of Roermond, Weert and Venlo in the north of the Dutch ...

. His parents had immigrated from

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

seven years before. Amhaouch received his primary education in

, afterwards he attended the lower technical school in Panningen from 1985 to 1988. The three subsequent years he attended the middle technical school in Venlo. He studied

control theory Control theory is a field of mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a ...

at the

Fontys University of Applied Sciences Fontys University of Applied Sciences is a Dutch university of applied sciences with over 44,000 students in several campuses located in the southern Netherlands. The three largest Fontys campuses are located in the cities of Eindhoven, Tilburg ...

in Venlo from 1991 to 1995. After finishing his education Amhaouch worked for

Philips Medical Systems Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is ...

for a year. He then became an engineer and later manager at ASML, where he worked from 1996 to 2016, when he was appointed to the

. Amhaouch was a member of the municipal council of Helden for the

(CDA) between March 1997 and 16 March 2007, serving as group leader between 2004 and 2006. In the Parliamentary elections of 2010 Amhaouch occupied number 41 on the Christian Democratic Appeal party list, he was not elected. In the Parliamentary elections of 2012 he occupied place sixteen on the list and was not elected. On 12 January 2016 Amhaouch joined the

when he replaced Peter Oskam. He was the first CDA Representative of Moroccan descent, and the first Muslim since 2012. In the House he is occupied with internal affairs, Kingdom relations, technology and ICT. Amhaouch was made member of the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...

on 27 April 2007.

References

External links

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Parlement.com biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amhaouch, Mustafa 1970 births Living people 20th-century Dutch engineers 21st-century Dutch engineers 21st-century Dutch politicians Christian Democratic Appeal politicians Dutch Muslims Dutch people of Moroccan descent Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Municipal councillors in Limburg (Netherlands) People from Peel en Maas Recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau