Cornelis Pieter "Cees" Veerman (born 8 March 1949) is a retired

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politician of the

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(CDA) party and economist. Veerman applied at the Rotterdam School of Economics in May 1967 majoring in

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obtaining a

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degree in June 1969 working as a student researcher before obtaining a

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degree in July 1973. Veerman worked as an economics teacher in Delft from October 1971 until January 1976. Veerman served on the

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of Nieuw-Beijerland from May 1973 until June 1980 and on the Municipal Council of Korendijk from February 1986 until September 1991. Veerman worked as an associate professor of Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from January 1976 until September 1989. Veerman applied at the

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in April 1979 for a postgraduate education in Economics working as a researcher and got an

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as an

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in Agricultural economics in August 1983. Veerman worked as a distinguished professor of Agricultural economics at the

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from September 1989 until July 2002 and as a distinguished professor of Agricultural economics and

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at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from May 1990 until August 1997. Veerman also became active in the

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and

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and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards (

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and the General Bank of the Netherlands) and served on several state commissions and councils on behalf of the government (

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). Veerman also served as Chairman of the Education board of the Wageningen University from 1 May 1997 until 22 July 2002.

Biography

Early life

Veerman attended Erasmus University in

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, then went on to attain a

degree of economic science at

in 1983. After attaining his degree, Veerman taught economics at a secondary school. In 1989 he taught agricultural business economics and sociology at

. A year later, Veerman became a

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of agribusiness at his ''alma mater'', Erasmus University, then in 1997, became chairman of the board of management at Wageningen University.

Politics

Veerman served as the

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, Nature and Food Quality for the

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in the third and

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. He was also President of the EU Council of Agriculture Ministers. Some of the key issues he was focused on include the relationship between agriculture and society (especially combating poverty), the relationship between farming and nature, and reforms for the EU's

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(CAP), which includes the feud over European farm aid. He is very influential in international environmental affairs. He was succeeded by

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on 22 February 2007.

Trivia

he sat as a member on various supervisory boards throughout his career. Some of these boards include the National Cooperative Council for Agricultural and Horticulture, the board of the Horticultural Auction Association, the DLO Agricultural Economics Research Institute, the Moret, Ernst & Young advisory board, the Nieuw-Beijerland municipal council for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), and the Social and Economic Council.Deltacommissie
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