| Mathias Sinclair Voges | |
|---|---|
| Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office October 20, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | none |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1943 |
| Political party | Democratic Party Sint Maarten |
Mathias Sinclair Voges (Philipsburg, 1943) is an politician and historian from Sint Maarten, who currently holds the office of Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten. Before this, Voges had been Acting Lieutenant Governor of Sint Maarten.[1] He is also a former president of the Board of Directors of the University of St. Martin.[2]
Voges was born in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten to Johannes Ricardo Voges and Theresa Winifred Lejuez. The family left for Curaçao when Mathias was still young. In Curaçao, he graduated from Peter Stuyvesant College in 1965, after which he continued his studies in Maastricht, the Netherlands at the Rijkskweekschool. After graduating in 1966, he moved to Aruba, where he did the Lerarenopleiding, from which he graduated in 1975.[2]
Voges returned to Sint Maarten in 1981, becoming the principal of the MAVO department of the Milton Peters College. He was promoted to General Director in 1983, and served until 1987. He subsequently became superintendent of the Catholic schools in the Windward Islands.[2]