Mariko Peters

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Mariko Peters

Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
In office March 11, 2011 – September 19, 2012
Preceded by	Niels van den Berge
In office December 21, 2008 – November 23, 2010
Preceded by	Isabelle Diks
Succeeded by	Rik Grashoff
In office November 30, 2006 – August 31, 2008
Succeeded by	Isabelle Diks
Personal details
Born	Mariko Peters (1969-04-22) April 22, 1969 Berkeley, California, United States
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	GreenLeft (GroenLinks - GL)
Relations	Married
Residence	The Hague, Netherlands
Alma mater	Leiden University, Columbia University (LLM)
Occupation	Politician, civil servant, lawyer
Website	(Dutch) GreenLeft website

Mariko Peters (born April 22, 1969 in Berkeley, California, United States) is a former Dutch politician and civil servant as well as lawyer. She was an MP from November 30, 2006 to September 19, 2012 (with two interruptions because of maternity leave). She focused on matters of foreign affairs, judiciary, public administration, mass media and culture.

Peters, who has a Dutch father and Japanese mother, studied Law at the University of Leiden until 1995, resulting in Dutch LLM degree. During her studies she worked as an assistant at the research institute "Law and Policy." Between 1990 and 1992 she studied Japanese Literature and Law at the University of Kyoto and the International Christian University. In 1996 she obtained a LL.M. degree at the Columbia University School of Law.

Between 1996 and 2000 she worked as a lawyer at the office De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. In 2000 she gave up a successful career in law to turn to human rights. In 2000 she took courses in European competition law at the Grotius Academie. She then took a job as a human rights-lawyer at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2002 she began to work for the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs as policy advisor. In 2004 she became adjudant chef de poste at the Dutch embassy in Afghanistan. Since 2006 she worked as an advisor for the Afghan minister of Foreign Affairs, as representative of the Dutch government.

In September 2006, she unexpectedly became fourth candidate on the GreenLeft list for the 2006 elections. She had been member of the party since 2001. She was asked to put forth her candidacy by Farah Karimi, former Foreign Affairs spokesperson of the GreenLeft, when Karimi visited Afghanistan. In November 2006 she became a member of the House of Representatives.

In June 2010 Mariko Peters was elected for a second term in Parliament, having again been placed fourth on the list of the GreenLeft party by the congress. Her term lasted until September 2012. Among her achievements was the writing of a new Freedom of Information law (WOB, Wet Openbaarheid Bestuur in Dutch) which she led with a group of experts, crowd-sourcing the preamble in a competition. The proposal was accompanied by an innovative software program allowing citizens to access government information freely according to their interests, comment on it and share it by social media.

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

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v t e List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands<br/ > (2006–2010)

Christian Democratic Appeal	Schreijer-Pierik Van Geel Atsma Sterk Schinkelshoek de Vries Spies Ferrier Madsen Ormel Van Heugten Van Haersma Buma Çörüz Van Hijum Van Bochove Koopmans Van de Camp Blanksma-Van den Heuvel Koppejan Jager Joldersma Van Dijk Schermers Mastwijk de Nerée tot Babberich Biskop Uitslag Jos Hessels Ten Hoopen Omtzigt Van Vroonhoven-Kok Haverkamp De Pater-Van der Meer -Willemse-Van der Ploeg Jonker Bilder Knops De Rouwe Van Toorenburg Vietsch Smilde

ChristianUnion	Slob Voordewind Ortega-Martijn Cramer Anker Wiegman-Van Meppelen Scheppink

Democrats 66	Pechtold Kaya Van der Ham

GreenLeft	Halsema Vendrik Sap Van Gent Azough Dibi Peters

Dutch Labour Party	Arib Tang Kraneveldt Heijnen Vos Van Dijken Boelhouwer Heerts Hamer Van Dam Besselink Kuiken Tichelaar Verbeet (chair) Timmer Smeets Spekman Eijsink Samsom Gill'ard Staf Depla Agnes Wolbert Dijsselbloem Jacobi Paul Kalma Bouchibti Leerdam Roefs Blom Bouwmeester Van der Veen Vermeij Waalkens

Party for Freedom	Wilders Agema De Roon Brinkman Bosma Graus Madlener Van Dijck Fritsma

Party for the Animals	Thieme Ouwehand

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Rutte Kamp Griffith Van der Burg Teeven Schippers Nicolaï Remkes Van Beek Van Baalen Van Miltenburg Aptroot Boekestijn Neppérus Hamming-Bluemink Blok De Krom Zijlstra Ten Broeke Weekers Snijder-Hazelhoff

Member Verdonk	Verdonk

Reformed Political Party	Van der Vlies Van der Staaij

Socialist Party	Marijnissen Kant Karabulut Van Bommel de Wit Van Velzen Irrgang Van Raak Roemer Leijten Ulenbelt Smits Gesthuizen Van Dijk De Rooij Van Leeuwen Luijben Jansen Poppe Gerkens Bashir Van Gerven Langkamp Polderman Lempens

Italics signifies a temporary member - Bold signifies the parliamentary group leader

Persondata
Name	Peters, Mariko
Alternative names
Short description	Dutch politician, civil servant and lawyer
Date of birth	April 22, 1969
Place of birth	Berkeley, California, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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