Education
He studied economics at the Catholic Economics School in Tilburg, and worked for several years at the Dutch embassy in the United States.
He studied economics at the Catholic Economics School in Tilburg, and worked for several years at the Dutch embassy in the United States.
He was Secretary of Finance from 1980–1981 and again from 1989 - 1994. In the first period he was Spokesman on Development and Foreign Affairs, and in 1973 he turned down a post as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Although he retired in 1994, from 1995 to 2003 he was President of the Union of Catholic Federal Elderly (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) which was in still in direct contact with his party, the Capital Development Authority. Van Amelsvoort was seriously ill from 2003, and died in May 2006 at 75 years of age.
Christian Democratic Appeal, Catholic People"s Party.
Then he worked a long time in the banking sector as was a Board Member of the First Chamber of the Cerebrospinal fluid in which he acted as a spokesman for financial affairs After a brief interlude in the European Parliament followed from 1971 to 1980 a member of the Second Chamber.