Education
Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Erasmus University Rotterdam.
She has been Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the second Rutte cabinet since 5 November 2012. She was also the chairwoman of the Labour Party from 6 October 2007 until 22 January 2012, when she resigned and was succeeded by Hans Spekman. Ploumen studied social history at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
In the evening of her appointment as a minister she went to Turkey for her first trade mission.
