Education
University of Amsterdam.
assistant politician sociologist speaker
University of Amsterdam.
She came to the Netherlands when she was 15 years old. Before her political career, she was a civil servant, educator and social worker In 2012, she made an unsuccessful attempt to become Speaker and became First Deputy Speaker instead.
She was elected Speaker in an interim election on 13 January 2016, defeating three other candidates.
During her career, Khadija Arib has been a fore-fighter for women"s rights and the empowerment of women with a migrant background in the Netherlands. She was a founding member and president of the Moroccan Women in the Netherlands Foundation.
After intervention by the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs, she was allowed to return to the Netherlands.
She is a member of the Dutch Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid, Labour Party) and has been a Member of Parliament from 19 May 1998 to 29 November 2006 and since 1 March 2007. As a Member of Parliament, she focussed on matters of racism, discrimination control, women"s abuse, domestic violence and youth care. While in the House of Representatives, she has been fiercely criticised (mainly by members of the far-right Party for Freedom) for her dual citizenship and for her part in an advisory committee to the King of Morocco.