Ronald van Raak

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Ronald van Raak

Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Incumbent
Assumed office November 30, 2006
Member of the Senate
In office June 10, 2003 – November 28, 2006
Personal details
Born	Antonius Adrianus Gerardus Maria van Raak (1969-10-30) October 30, 1969 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij - SP)
Relations	Married
Residence	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alma mater	Erasmus University Rotterdam (MA - Social history, MA - Philosophy)<br/ >University of Amsterdam (PhD - Humanities)
Occupation	Politician, non-fiction writer, academic
Religion	Roman Catholic ^[1]
Website	(Dutch) Socialist Party website

Antonius Adrianus Gerardus Maria (Ronald) van Raak (born October 30, 1969 in Hilvarenbeek) is a Dutch politician, non-fiction writer and former academic. As a member of the Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij) he has been an MP since November 30, 2006. He focuses on matters of home affairs, Kingdom relations, the Dutch Royal House and general affairs. From 2003 to 2006 he was a Senator.

Biography

Van Raak is of a working-class background; his father was a truck driver. He grew up in his native village and attended secondary education in Tilburg. Afterwards he studied both social history and philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and got promoted in humanities at the University of Amsterdam.

On April 1, 2000 he joined the Socialist Party and started to work at SP's think tank. Three years later he became director.

In 2003 he was elected into the Dutch Senate and was a member from June 10 that year till November 28, 2006. In November 2006 he was elected into the Dutch House of Representatives. The same month he changed positions, instead of being director he became SP's think tank chairman.

From 2001 to 2005 he also taught history at the University of Amsterdam.

Bibliography

2011: De Eerste Kamer. De andere kant van het Binnenhof: toen, nu, straks (editor, with Arjan Vliegenthart)
2010: Woorden in de strijd (editor, with Sj. van der Velden)
2008: Socialisten. Mensen achter de idealen
2008: Modern socialisme
2006: Het rijke rooie leven. Verhalen over socialisme in Nederland
2004: Socialisme, what's left? (editor, essays)
2003: Oud licht op nieuwe zaken. Adviezen van Erasmus, Spinoza, Thorbecke, Multatuli, Huizinga en anderen (essays)
2001-2003: De uitverkoop van Nederland (with N. Schouten)
2001: In naam van het volmaakte: conservatisme in Nederland in de negentiende eeuw van Gerrit Jan Mulder tot Jan Heemskerk Azn. (dissertation)
1997: De moderne dwaas. Bertolt Brecht en de moderne zingeving

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

↑ (Dutch) Perdefinitie.nl biography

External links

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(Dutch) House of Representatives biography

v t e Current Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands<br/ >2012 - present<br/ >Situation on 12 February 2014

50PLUS<br/ >(50+ - 2)	Klein Baay-Timmerman

Christian<br/ >Democratic Appeal<br/ >(CDA - 13)	Bruins Slot Geurts Van Haersma Buma Heerma Van Hijum Keijzer Knops Ag. Mulder Omtzigt Oskam Rog De Rouwe Van Toorenburg

ChristianUnion<br/ >(CU - 5)	Dik-Faber Schouten Segers Slob Voordewind

Democrats 66<br/ >(D66 - 12)	Bergkamp Berndsen P. Dijkstra Hachchi Koolmees Van Meenen Pechtold Schouw Sjoerdsma Van Veldhoven Verhoeven Van Weyenberg

GreenLeft<br/ >(GL - 4)	Klaver Van Ojik Van Tongeren Voortman

Independent<br/ >(IND - 1)	Bontes

Labour Party<br/ >(PvdA - 38)	Arib Bouwmeester Çegerek Van Dam Van Dekken O. Van Dijk Dikkers Eijsink Fokke Groot Günal-Gezer Hamer Hoogland Jacobi Jadnanansing Kerstens Kuiken Kuzu Van Laar Maij Marcouch Mohandis Monasch Nijboer Oosenbrug Öztürk Rebel-Volp Recourt Samsom Servaes Tanamal Vermeij J. Vos M. Vos De Vries Wolbert Ypma Yücel

Party for the Animals<br/ >(PvdD - 2)	Ouwehand Thieme

Party for Freedom<br/ >(PVV - 14)	Agema Beertema Bosma Van Dijck Fritsma De Graaf Graus Helder Van Klaveren Klever Madlener De Roon Van Vliet Wilders

People's Party for<br/ >Freedom and Democracy<br/ >(VVD - 41)	Azmani Berckmoes-Duindam De Boer Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé Dijkhoff R. Dijkstra Duisenberg Elias Harbers Heerema Leegte De Liefde Van der Linde Litjens Lodders Lucas Van Miltenburg (President) Moors Mulder Neppérus Van Nieuwenhuizen Van Oosten Potters A. Rutte Schut-Welkzijn Van der Steur Straus Taverne Tellegen Van Veen Venrooy-van Ark Verheijen Visser De Vries Vuijk Van 't Wout Ziengs Zijlstra

Reformed Political Party<br/ >(SGP - 3)	Bisschop Dijkgraaf Van der Staaij

Socialist Party<br/ >(SP - 15)	Bashir Van Bommel J. Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen Jansen Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Merkies Van Raak Roemer Smaling (Smits) Ulenbelt De Wit

Bold signifies the parliamentary group leader<br/ > Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member<br/ > Italics signifies a temporary member<br/ ><br/ > See also: Current MPs of the Senate of the Netherlands

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	Raak, Ronald van
Alternative names	Raak, Antonius Adrianus Gerardus Maria van
Short description	Dutch politician, non-fiction writer and academic
Date of birth	October 30, 1969
Place of birth	Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
Date of death
Place of death

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