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Leiden University; Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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Edith Schippers
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Schippers was elected as deputy leader of the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratic (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) in the House of Representatives in 2006, a position she served in until she became a minister in the first Rutte cabinet in 2010. After the second Rutte cabinet succeeded the first one, Schippers remained in her position. Schippers was born in Utrecht, but spent her years while attending primary school in Dordrecht.
At the age of 12, she moved to Wachtum in Drenthe.
Edith Schipper"s alma mater is Leiden University, where she studied political science from 1985 till 1991. She also spent half a year studying at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India in 1990.
After that, Schippers found employment at Employers" organization VNO-NCW. From 1997 until 2001, her portfolio as secretary for VNO-CNW included healthcare and the labor market and from 2001 until 2003 spatial planning. Geert Wilders became her mentor.
Schippers considered this a great honor, but not her greatest success.
In 2010 she became a minister. Schippers was repeatedly accused of being a tobacco industry lobbyist, and was labeled "minister Tobacco", because she had ties to the tobacco industry and because she tried to revert the ban on smoking in bars and cafes.
Politics
In 2006 was elected as vice chairman of the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratic (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) parliamentary party.
Membership
A Dutch politician of the People"s Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratic (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy)), Schippers was a member of the House of Representatives from 2003 until 2010 and again, briefly, in 2012. In 1993, Schippers became personal assistant to member of parliament Dick Dees. She served in this position until 1994, after which point she became a staff member of the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratic (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) parliamentary fraction dealing with healthcare, welfare and sports.
Schippers became a member of parliament in June 2003.
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