Samuel Ernest "Sammy", Baron van

Tuyll Tuyll is the name of a noble Dutch family, with familial and historical links to England, whose full name is Van Tuyll van Serooskerken. Several knights, members of various courts, literary figures, generals, ambassadors, statesmen and explorers ...

van Serooskerken (born 10 October 1951 in Velp) is a Dutch politician and a member of the

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. He was co-founder of the Liberal Democratic Party (''Liberaal Democratische Partij'', abbr. "LibDem") and was head of list for this party in the 2006 and

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Parliament elections.

Education

After his secondary education, van Tuyll studied Medicine at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

. After graduating in medicine in 1976, he studied economics and law at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

, in which he graduated in 1983 and 1987 respectively.

Career

After a career at the Dutch Central Bank De Nederlandsche Bank and the Ministry of Finance, van Tuyll worked in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

from 1994 to 2001; he was Economic Advisor at the

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Politics

Van Tuyll is a co-founder of Liberal Democratic Party (Liberaal Democratische Partij).

Personal

Van Tuyll is married and has six children.

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