Matthijs van Miltenburg (born 2 April 1972) is a Dutch politician who served as

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

(MEP) from 2014 until 2019. He is a member of the

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Career

Van Miltenburg was born on 2 April 1972 in

Rosmalen Rosmalen () is a town in the province of North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. The town is located 6 kilometers east of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) and has been part of that municipality since 1996. Its population is around ...

. He studied law and international law at the Catholic University of Tilburg between 1990 and 1996. He followed this up with a study of judicial and administrative science at the same university during the following year. He worked as a jurist and policy employee for the

Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management The Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management ( Dutch: ''Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat''; V&W) was a Dutch ministry responsible for water management, public and private transport and infrastructure. It is now part of the ...

between 1997 and 2001. Van Miltenburg subsequently worked as a consultant of European funds between 2003 and 2007. He then became a senior policy advisor international affairs for the Dutch province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to ...

, he stayed in this position until April 2012. At that point he became a projectmanager of foreign investments at a provincial development company. Van Miltenburg was a member of the municipal council of

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...

between 11 March 2010 and 24 June 2014.

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–2019

In the 2014 European Parliament elections Van Miltenburg was elected for the

. Van Miltenburg occupied the fourth place on the party list and he received 16,698 votes. A member of the ALDE (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) political faction, Van Miltenburg served on the

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. He was also the ALDE group’s shadow

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for a 2015 European Commission report on regulations for commercial drones.Zoya Sheftalovich (May 18, 2015)
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''. His term in the European Parliament ended on 1 July 2019.

External links

Profile on Parlement.com

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miltenburg, Matthijs van 1972 births Living people People from Rosmalen Tilburg University alumni Municipal councillors of 's-Hertogenbosch Democrats 66 politicians Democrats 66 MEPs MEPs for the Netherlands 2014–2019