Mustafa Amhaouch (born 27 June 1970) is a Dutch politician, he has been a member of the

House of Representatives of the Netherlands The House of Representatives ( , literally "Second Chamber of the States General", or simply ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General of the Netherlands, States General, the other one ...

for the

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since 12 January 2016, when he replaced Peter Oskam. Previously he served as municipal councillor in Helden between 1997 and 2006.

Career

Amhaouch was born on 27 June 1970 in Panningen. His parents had immigrated from

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

seven years before. Amhaouch received his primary education in Helden, afterwards he attended the lower technical school in Panningen from 1985 to 1988. The three subsequent years he attended the middle technical school in Venlo. He studied

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at the

Fontys University of Applied Sciences Fontys University of Applied Sciences is a Dutch university of applied sciences, located in the southern Netherlands. It has over 44,000 students on several campuses. The three largest Fontys campuses are located in the cities of Eindhoven, Til ...

in Venlo from 1991 to 1995. After finishing his education Amhaouch worked for

Philips Medical Systems Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), simply branded Philips, is a Dutch multinational health technology company that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, its world headquarters have been situated in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarter ...

for a year. He then became an engineer and later manager at ASML, where he worked from 1996 to 2016, when he was appointed to the

. Amhaouch was a member of the municipal council of Helden for the

(CDA) between March 1997 and 16 March 2007, serving as group leader between 2004 and 2006. In the Parliamentary elections of 2010 Amhaouch occupied number 41 on the Christian Democratic Appeal party list, he was not elected. In the Parliamentary elections of 2012 he occupied place sixteen on the list and was not elected. On 12 January 2016 Amhaouch joined the

when he replaced Peter Oskam. He was the first CDA Representative of Moroccan descent, and the first Muslim since 2012. In the House he is occupied with internal affairs, Kingdom relations, technology and ICT. Amhaouch was made member of the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau () is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has performed acts of special merits for ...

on 27 April 2007.

Electoral history

References

External links

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Parlement.com biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amhaouch, Mustafa 1970 births Living people 20th-century Dutch engineers 21st-century Dutch engineers Christian Democratic Appeal politicians Dutch Muslims Dutch people of Moroccan descent Municipal councillors in Limburg (Netherlands) People from Peel en Maas Recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau Dutch MPs 2012–2017 Dutch MPs 2017–2021 Dutch MPs 2021–2023 Christian Democratic Appeal MPs