Harry Borghouts

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Harry Borghouts

Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 June 2002
Monarch Queen Beatrix
Preceded by Jos van Kemenade

Born 7 February 1943 (1943-02-07) (age 65)
Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Political party Political Party Radicals
GreenLeft
Alma mater Royal Netherlands Naval College
University of Amsterdam

Henricus Cornelius Johannes Lodewijk "Harry" Borghouts (born 7 February 1943) is the Queen's Commissioner in the province North Holland since 1 June 2002. He is a member of the political party GreenLeft. He was the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands from 1996 to 2002.[1]

Harry Borghouts was born on 7 February 1943 in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands.[1] His father, who fought for the Dutch resistance during World War II, was State Secretary of Defence from 1965 to 1966.[2] After his gymnasium education in Rotterdam, where he majored in arts, Borghouts studied to be a naval officer at the Royal Netherlands Naval College from 1961 to 1964. Afterwards, he studied Law at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1977.[1]

Borghouts was made Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau on 28 April 2006.[1]

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Preceded by
Jos van Kemenade
Queen's Commissioner in North Holland
1 June 2002 – present
Incumbent
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