Education
Erasmus University Rotterdam. Wageningen University and Research Centre.
Erasmus University Rotterdam. Wageningen University and Research Centre.
He served as Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality from 22 July 2002 until 22 February 2007. In 1989 he taught agricultural business economics and sociology at Tilburg University. A year later, Veerman became a professor 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 Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality for the Netherlands in the third and fourth cabinet Balkenende.
He was also President of the European Union 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 European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (Civil Air Patrol), which includes the feud over European farm aid.
He is very influential in international environmental affairs He was succeeded by Gerda Verburg on February 22, 2007.
Trivia
Veerman has 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 ( Capital Development Authority), and the Social and Economic Council.