Mariëlle Paul

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Mariëlle Paul
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
31 March 2021
Personal details
Born (1966-11-05) 5 November 1966 (age 55)
Geldrop, Netherlands
Political partyPeople's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
Alma materLeiden University
OccupationCommunications director

Mariëlle L.J. Paul (born 5 November 1966) is a Dutch member of the House of Representatives. A member of the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), she was elected to that body in the 2021 general election. She previously worked as a communications director for several multinational corporations.

Early life and corporate career[]

Paul was born in 1966 in the North Brabant town of Geldrop to Pakistani parents.[1][2] Her father was Anglo-Indian, and her parents had moved from Karachi to the Netherlands the year before Paul's birth, when her father took a job at DAF.[3][4] Paul grew up with a sister and moved from Geldrop to the nearby village of Heeze in 1973.[3][5] She attended the secondary school Augustinianum at gymnasium level starting in 1979.[6] She studied international law at Leiden University in the years 1985–91.[1][2]

After graduating, Paul started working for oil and gas company BP. She became a corporate communications director at public relations company Hill & Knowlton six years later.[1][7] Between 2000 and 2004, she co-owned a Haarlem communication consultancy called Principal Communications, and Paul subsequently started working for the bank ABN AMRO.[1][8] She was employed there for almost nine years and filled positions in marketing, communication, and HR.[1][7] Paul became corporate and sales communications director at media group Sanoma in 2013.[7] She left that company in 2015 and worked for the NGO Porticus as its interim communications director. Paul was Royal BAM Group's communications director between 2017 and her election to the House of Representatives in 2021.[1]

House of Representatives[]

In the 2021 general election, she was placed 17th on the VVD's party list.[9] Paul had previously served as member and vice chair of the board of the Amsterdam VVD.[3][10] Her party won 34 seats, causing her to be elected. Paul received 2,633 preference votes and was sworn into the House of Representatives on 31 March 2021.[11] She became her party's spokesperson for international trade, development aid, and macroeconomic policy, but her portfolio changed to primary and secondary education shortly after.[12] Besides, Paul is part of the contact groups Germany, United Kingdom, and United States, and she is on the Committees for Education, Culture and Science; for European Affairs; for Foreign Affairs; for Kingdom Relations; and for Public Expenditure.[1]

Personal life[]

Paul is a resident of Amsterdam, where she had been living there for thirty years at the time of her swearing in as MP.[1][9] She is single.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mariëlle Paul". Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b Breur, Jolanda (12 December 2009). "Vrouwen helpen elkaar hogerop" [Women help each other rise]. Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Thijssen, Willie (8 March 2021). "Mariëlle Paul - oorspronkelijk uit Heeze - maakt goede kans op zetel in Tweede Kamer" [Mariëlle Paul – originally from Heeze – has a good chance of winning a seat in the House of Representatives]. ED (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  4. ^ Khan, Mohammad Zubair (2 May 2021). "اینگلو انڈین: پاکستان کی 'روشن خیال' اور 'فرض شناس' برادری جس نے بہتر اور محفوظ مستقبل کے لیے ملک چھوڑ دیا" [Anglo-Indian: Pakistan's 'enlightened' and 'dutiful' community that left the country for a better and safer future]. BBC News (in Urdu). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  5. ^ Verleg, Thijs (6 March 2021). "Mariëlle Paul met Heezer roots op weg naar de Kamer" [Mariëlle Paul with Heeze roots on her way to the House of Representatives]. Heeze-Leende24 (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Biografie, onderwijs en loopbaan van Mariëlle Paul" [Biography, education, and career of Mariëlle Paul]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  7. ^ a b c "Mensen" [People]. Het Parool (in Dutch). 6 May 2013. p. 7.
  8. ^ Boersma, Valerie (2 May 2013). "Mariëlle Paul director Communications bij Sanoma" [Mariëlle Paul director Communications at Sanoma]. Adformatie (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  9. ^ a b De Leeuw, Corrie (6 March 2021). "Zuidoost-Brabant moet het met weinig mensen doen in de Tweede Kamer: "Maar ik zeg houdoe tegen iedereen"" [Southeast Brabant will only have a few people in the House of Representatives: "But I say houdoe to everyone"]. ED (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  10. ^ Koops, Ruben; Meijs, Floor (18 March 2021). "Twaalf Amsterdammers maken entree in Tweede Kamer" [Twelve people from Amsterdam enter the House of Representatives]. Het Parool (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 17 maart 2021 Proces-verbaal" [Results general election 17 March 2021 Report] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 29 March 2021. p. 157. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Mariëlle Paul". VVD (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  13. ^ Quaegebeur, Els (9 December 2021). "Nieuw op het pluche" [New in the banks]. Vrij Nederland (in Dutch). p. 29.
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