Guus "Guusje" ter Horst (born 22 March 1952) is a retired

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politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and psychologist. She is a member of the supervisory board of

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since 1 January 2013 and chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Institute for Sound and Vision since 11 July 2011.

Biography

Ter Horst attended

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and subsequently studied at

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where she obtained a MSc degree in

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. In 1984 she received a PhD degree in

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on her thesis concerning the question how people who never go to the dentist can be made to do so. Between 1986 and 1994 she was associate professor of Social Dentistry at the subfaculty of Dentistry of the

. In 1984 Ter Horst joined the Labour Party (PvdA). In 1986 she was elected to the

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. In 1994 she became alderwoman, responsible for spatial planning, she initiated a major renovation of the city of Amsterdam. In 2001 she became mayor of Nijmegen. During her six-year term, she moved to a new house every year, to get to know the city. In August 2006 Ter Horst was fined for drunk driving, strangely, without political consequence. On 1 January 2007 her term as mayor ended and she did not pursue a second one. She was succeeded by

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. In 2010 Ter Horst received one of the Dutch

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for her lack of nuance in the privacy debate. Her project of a centrally organised fingerprint database for passports won an award as well. She resigned, together with all PvdA ministers, on the morning of 20 February 2010. The Queen accepted the resignation on 23 February 2010.

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