Education
Eindhoven University of Technology.
Eindhoven University of Technology.
After the Dutch general election of 2006 Eurlings was asked to become Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of the Netherlands in the Cabinet Balkenende IV serving from 22 February 2007 until 14 October 2010. Eurlings retired from active politics at the age of thirty-seven and became a corporate director and later President and Chief Executive Officer of KLM serving from 1 July 2013 until 16 October 2014. Eurlings is the eldest son of Martin Eurlings, a former Representative of Limburg in the States Deputed and who is since 2007 the Mayor of Valkenburg aan de Geul.
After grammar school in Maastricht, he began to study Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven in 1991.
He was also politically active in his hometown and on April 12 1994, at age 20, was elected councilor of his home town. This made him the youngest councilor at that time.
Politics
He also chaired the delegation to the European Union–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and was a substitute for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and the delegation for relations with Israel. From March 2006 to March 2007 he served as Vice President of the European People"s Party (EPP).
From 2007 to 2010 he was Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet.
KLM
Eurlings became a corporate director for KLM, leading the freight department. On 1 July 2013 he succeed Peter Hartman as the President and Chief Executive Officer of KLM. In 2014, fellow Dutch executives elected Eurlings as "Best Manager 2014", followed by Frans van Houten (Philips) and Dick Boer (Ahold). On 15 October 2014 he announced he is leaving KLM. American Express
June 2015 Eurlings announced on his Linkedin page that he has been working as an Non-executive director of the board of directors of American Express Global Business Travel since January 2015.
Sport
He became an International Olympic Committee Member at the 125th International Olympic Committee Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013.
Personal
He is not married but had a relation with a Hungarian woman until 2011.
International Olympic Committee]
Eurlings a corporate director by occupation, was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the Dutch general election of 1998 serving from 19 May 1998 until 20 July 2004 when he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament after the European Parliament election of 2004 serving from 20 July 2004 until 22 February 2007. Eurlings is a former Member of the European Parliament and sat on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.