I amsterdam - Alderman: Maarten van Poelgeest

Maarten van Poelgeest studied Social Geography at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Since 2001 he has been party leader of GroenLinks in the Amsterdam City Council, of which he has been a member since 1998.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal details
Name: Maarten van Poelgeest
Date of birth: 19 March 1965
Place of birth: Amsterdam
Civil status: Married, 2 children

Education
1977–1983: Grammar school
1983–1990: Studied Social Geography at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). He successfully completed the first year of this programme in 1985. He did not complete the entire programme.

Work experience
Maarten van Poelgeest began his political career in student politics. He was a committee member of the UvA student union and later he became chairman of the national student union, the LSVb.
In 1990 he became a member of the national board of the new party GroenLinks (the Green Left Alliance). Following this, Maarten van Poelgeest worked for the Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (Southern Africa Committee), which was later incorporated into the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA). From 1998 onwards he has been a member of the Amsterdam City Council on behalf of GroenLinks; in 2001 he became party leader for GroenLinks in this Council.