Anne-Marijke Podt

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Anne-Marijke Podt
Anne-Marijke Podt, 2017.jpg
Podt in 2017
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
7 September 2021
Preceded bySteven van Weyenberg
Member of the Utrecht municipal council
In office
27 March 2014[1] – 16 September 2021[2]
Succeeded byAndrea Naphegyi
Personal details
Born (1975-01-16) 16 January 1975 (age 47)
Papendrecht, Netherlands
Political partyDemocrats 66
Children1
Alma materDelft University of Technology
Occupation
  • Politician
  • independent adviser
  • aid worker
Websiteannemarijkepodt.nl

Anne-Marijke Podt (born 16 January 1975) is a Dutch politician of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66), who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since September 2021. She had previously been a member of the Utrecht municipal council starting in 2014, and she has worked as an aid worker and as an independent adviser for municipalities.

Early life and career[]

Podt was born and raised in the South Holland town of Papendrecht and lived in its Molenwijk neighborhood.[3][4] There, she attended the secondary school De Lage Waard and graduated in 1994 with an atheneum diploma.[5] She subsequently studied industrial design engineering at Delft University of Technology for eight years, including one year as a full-time board member of a student association, and did an internship in Nicaragua.[6][7] During the last three years of her study, Podt worked as a partner and trainer for a company called PinguinXL.[6]

After graduating, she became a project manager at the traffic innovation department of CBR, which is responsible for driving licenses in the Netherlands. She then took a job in 2005 at the non-profit International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) as a monitoring and evaluation expert and filled that position for five years. For the last three of those years, she also served as an ICT and democratization coordinator for the organization's Ecuador operations. Podt became the IICD's Kenya country manager in 2011.[6] She left the foundation in 2014 to work as a freelance social adviser for municipalities under the name A Single Step.[6][8]

While a freelancer, she held positions as an advisory board member of Utrecht University's Incluusion refugee program (2016) and as chair of the supervisory board of ActionAid Netherlands (2018–21).[6]

Politics[]

Podt ran for the Utrecht municipal council in 2014 and was elected as D66's seventh candidate.[9] She had previously chaired D66's International Affairs/International Cooperation thematic department in the years 2010–12.[10] In the council, Podt's specialties were youth, welfare, public health, diversity, social shelters, and addiction treatment.[11] In 2016, she proposed a pilot to immediately give a house to 200 news refugees who have yet to receive a residence permit and to start their integration process. The plan did not receive enough support from the council.[12][13] She also successfully pled for unisex toilets in municipal buildings in 2016 to make them more attractive for transgender people, making Utrecht the first municipality in the Netherlands to have them in its city hall.[14] Podt was re-elected in 2018, being placed second on D66's party list, and became her party's vice caucus chair.[15] Her specialties changed to work, income, LGBTI, refugees, integration, social shelters, and addiction treatment.[16]

Podt participated in the March 2021 general election as D66's 26th candidate.[17] She received 3,919 preference votes and was not elected, as her party won 24 seats.[18] Following the resignation of D66 member of parliament Steven van Weyenberg, Podt was sworn into the House of Representatives on 7 September 2021. Van Weyenberg had stepped down due to his new cabinet position.[8] Podt left the Utrecht municipal council, and she became D66's spokesperson for refugees, migration, the , migrant workers, labor conditions, and integration.[2][19] She is on the Committees for Education, Culture and Science; for Finance; for Justice and Security; and for Social Affairs and Employment.[20]

Personal life[]

Podt has been living in the city of Utrecht since the second half of the 2000s.[20][3] She has a boyfriend and a daughter.[19]

References[]

  1. ^ "Gemeenteraad" [Municipal council]. Gemeente Utrecht (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Gemeenteraad" [Municipal council]. Gemeente Utrecht (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Over mij" [About me]. Anne-Marijke Podt (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  4. ^ Podt, Anne-Marijke (9 March 2022). "'Eén van de leukste dingen'" [One of the most fun things']. Het Kontakt (Interview). p. 49.
  5. ^ "De Lage Waard Papendrecht". De Dordtenaar (in Dutch). 23 June 2014. p. 8.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Biografie, onderwijs en loopbaan van Anne-Marijke Podt" [Biography, education, and career of Anne-Marijke Podt]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  7. ^ Podt, Anne-Marijke (8 March 2021). "In gesprek met… Anne-Marijke Podt!" [In conversation with... Anne-Marijke Podt!]. D66 Apeldoorn (Interview) (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Vijf Kamerleden beëdigd" [Five House members sworn in]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (Press release) (in Dutch). 7 September 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Gemeenteraadsverkiezingen 2014" [2014 municipal elections] (PDF). Gemeente Utrecht (in Dutch). 21 March 2014. p. 38. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Afdeling Utrecht kandidaten gemeenteraad 2018" [Division Utrecht candidates municipal council 2018] (PDF) (in Dutch). 28 September 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Anne-Marijke Podt". Gemeente Utrecht (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Geen proef met snel huis voor vluchtelingen" [No pilot to quickly give refugees a house]. AD/Utrechts Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 1 April 2016. p. 6.
  13. ^ Heerschop, Tessa (1 April 2016). "Raad tegen pilot D66 asielzoekers" [Council against D66 pilot for refugees]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). p. 14.
  14. ^ Huygen, Maarten (19 July 2016). "In het begin is het wat ongemakkelijk, die gemengde wc" [In the beginning it is a bit uncomfortable, those unisex toilets]. NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  15. ^ "D66 klaar voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezing". D66 Utrecht (Press release) (in Dutch). 13 October 2018. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Anne-Marijke Podt". D66 Utrecht (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Dit zijn onze kandidaten voor de Tweede Kamer verkiezingen" [These are our candidates in the general election]. D66 (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  18. ^ "Tweede Kamer 17 maart 2021" [House of Representatives 17 March 2021]. Databank Verkiezingsuitslagen (in Dutch). Kiesraad. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  19. ^ a b "Anne-Marijke Podt". D66 (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  20. ^ a b "Anne-Marijke Podt". Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal. Retrieved 1 November 2021.

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