Daniëlle Hirsch (born 5 April 1968) is a Dutch economist and politician of

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, who has been serving in the

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since 2023.

Career

Hirsch was born in 1968 in

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. At the age of 20, while studying economics, she moved to

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, located near

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, with a Mexican friend she had met while working in Israel. In an interview, she told that her one year of experience in the slums transformed her worldview, and ''

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'' wrote that she had been involved in the fight against economic inequality ever since. Hirsch completed her studies and subsequently advised organizations including the

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and the

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on water management and international economic relations. From 2008 until 2023, she served as director of Both Ends, an

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advocating the environment and fair labor practices. The organization was among the plaintiffs of ''

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'', a 2021 case in which the district court of The Hague ordered the oil and gas company

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to reduce its carbon emissions. Hirsch was also on an advisory council of the

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starting in 2019. Hirsch first ran for the

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in the 2017 general election, appearing 41st on the GroenLinks's

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. She was the 16th candidate

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but was again not elected. At the time, Hirsch was writing opinion pieces for ''De Helling'', the magazine of the party's think tank. She criticized the government's climate policy and its measures to tackle the

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. In the 2023 general election, she was the 27th candidate on the shared

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list. Her party received 25 seats, but Hirsch was elected due to her 25,012

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. She was the only candidate elected due to meeting the preference vote threshold in the election cycle. Her specialties in the House are international trade, development cooperation and international climate policy.

House committee assignments

* Committee for Foreign Trade and Development * Committee for Foreign Affairs * Committee for Defence * Contact group United States

Career

House committee assignments

Personal life

Electoral history

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