Jacqueline Marian Cramer (born 10 April 1951) is a retired

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politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and biologist. Cramer was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the

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for the PvdA. Previously she was a professor of sustainable entrepreneurship at

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and professor of environmental management at Erasmus University. She is member of the board of directors at

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and a member of the

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.Prof.dr. Jacqueline Cramer
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selected Jacqueline Cramer in 1992 to represent The Netherlands. Cramer studied

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and at the

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. In 1987 she obtained her Ph.D. with ''Mission-orientation in Ecology. The Case of Dutch Fresh-water Ecology'', with honours. She has two children and lives in Amsterdam.

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Dr. J.M. (Jacqueline) Cramer
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