Key facts
- Commission
- Von der Leyen II
- Preceded by
- Himself
- Succeeded by
- Himself
- Prime minister
- Mark Rutte
- Born
- Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra , ( 1975-09-30 ) 30 September 1975 (age 50) , Bennekom , Netherlands
- Party
- Christian Democratic Appeal
- Domestic partner
- Liselot Hoornweg
- Education
- Leiden University ( LLB , LLM ) , INSEAD ( MBA )
- Website
- Government website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Bennekom
- Occupation
- columnist
- Position held
- European Commissioner for Climate Action
- Educated at
- Leiden University
- Employer
- Procter & Gamble
- Political party
- Christian Democratic Appeal
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
- Image
- Hoekstra EC Portrait 2024.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Bussum
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- date of birth
- 1975-09-30
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- Wopke Hoekstra
- social media followers
- 88309
- name in native language
- Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra
- P10632
- Wopke Hoekstra
- affiliation string
- Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands
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Encyclopedic overview
Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra ( Dutch: [ˈʋɔpkə ˈbɑstijaːn ˈɦukstraː]; born 30 September 1975) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who serves as European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth in the second von der Leyen commission.
Following a corporate career and a decade in the Dutch Senate and House of Representatives, Hoekstra served as Minister of Finance in the third Rutte cabinet from 2017 to 2022 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) from 2020 to 2023. In January 2022, he became second Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the fourth Rutte cabinet. Hoekstra left the cabinet in September 2023 to succeed Frans Timmermans as European Commissioner for Climate Action in the first von der Leyen commission, and he stayed in his role when the second von der Leyen Commission was inaugurated in December 2024.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wopke Hoekstra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.