Professor Jouke de Vries (born 26 September 1960 in

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of the

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of the

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(RUG) in

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. Before that he was Dean of the University of Groningen/Campus Fryslân in

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. De Vries grew up in the village of

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and in 1979 started his studies in political science at the

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. He has been working at the group Leaderships Art at the

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since 1984. De Vries obtained his PhD in 1989 from H. Daudt and H. Daalder on the article he wrote on "Ground Politics" (later made into a novel by the same name) and the educational essay "Cabinet Crisis in the Netherlands". In 2002 he was a candidate for the leadership of the

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, but got only two percent of the votes of the party members against sixty percent for the chosen leader

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. He teaches students at Leiden University in his role as a Professor of political science (Dutch:Hoogleraar). He regularly speaks to international groups of students, especially exchange students. He is currently a columnist for a

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website, where he writes his own blog each week. Here he writes on recent news from the worlds of politics and economics. Jouke de Vries is member of the board of

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. Jouke de Vries worked in

as dean o
University of Groningen/Campus Fryslân
until he was promoted to president of the University of Groningen on October 1, 2018. De Vries is married to Margriet Ekens and has two children, son Hidde de Vries and daughter Jildou de Vries.

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