State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science
In office 22 February 2007 – 23 February 2010
Serving with Marja van Bijsterveldt
Prime Minister
Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by
Bruno Bruins
Succeeded by
Marja van Bijsterveldt
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 23 March 2017 – 1 June 2018
In office 8 May 2012 – 20 September 2012
In office 17 June 2010 – 17 January 2012
In office 17 May 1994 – 22 February 2007
Personal details
Born
Sharon Alida Maria Dijksma
(1971-04-16) 16 April 1971 (age 50) Groningen, Netherlands
Nationality
Dutch
Political party
Labour Party (since 1988)
Children
1 son and 1 daughter
Residence
Utrecht
Occupation
Politician
Sharon Alida Maria Dijksma (born 16 April 1971) is a Dutch politician serving as Mayor of Utrecht since 2020. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), she previously was a State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science from 2007 to 2010, at the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 2012 to 2015 and at the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment from 2015 to 2017, as well as an alderwoman of Amsterdam from 2018 until 2020.
She was a member of the House of Representatives from 23 March 2017 until 30 May 2018. From 3 November 2015 until 26 October 2017 she was the State secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment succeeding to Wilma Mansveld who resigned from the position;[1] from 18 December 2012 to 3 November 2015 she was the State secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, dealing with agriculture, nature, food quality, tourism, and postal affairs. Therefore, Dijksma was allowed to use the ministerial title "Minister for Agriculture" while on foreign business. Before that she was an MP from 17 June 2010 to 19 September 2012. She focused on matters of traffic, water management and home affairs.
Dijksma was the State secretary for Education, Culture and Science in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet from 2007 to 2010. From 1994 to 2007, she was a member of the House of Representatives. When, on 16 May 1994, Dijksma became an MP, her age was 23 and she was the youngest MP ever in Dutch parliamentarian history. In 1991 she became secretary general of the Young Socialists. From 1992 to 1994 she was chairwoman of the Young Socialists (Jonge Socialisten).
Dijksma studied law at the University of Groningen and public administration at the University of Twente but did not finish her studies.
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