Peter Ester

Peter Ester

Peter Ester (born June 5, 1953 in Utrecht) is a Dutch sociologist and politician. As a member of the ChristianUnion (ChristenUnie) he has been a member of the Senate since June 7, 2011. He focuses on matters of economic affairs, agriculture, social affairs and employment, finance, infrastructure, natural environment and Kingdom relations.

Among others he worked at Vrije Universiteit (Free University Amsterdam), Tilburg University and Utrecht University.

Ester is married and a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN).

References

Current Members of the Senate of the Netherlands 2011–present Situation on 6 March 2015

50PLUS (50+: 1)	Nagel

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 11)	Van Bijsterveld Brinkman Essers Flierman Franken Hoekstra Van der Linden Lokin-Sassen Martens Terpstra De Vries-Leggedoor

ChristianUnion (CU: 2)	Ester Kuiper

Democrats 66 (D66: 5)	Backer Van Boxtel Engels De Graaf Scholten

GreenLeft (GL: 5)	De Boer Ganzevoort Strik Thissen Vos

Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	De Lange

Labour Party (PvdA: 14)	Barth Beuving Duivesteijn Ter Horst Koning Koole Linthorst Postema Schrijver Sent Sylvester Vlietstra De Vries Van Zandbrink

Party for the Animals (PvdD: 1)	Koffeman

Party for Freedom (PVV: 10)	Van Beek Van Dijk Faber-van de Klashorst Frijters-Klijnen Kok Kops Popken Reynaers Sørensen Van Strien

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 16)	Beckers Bröcker Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Dupuis Duthler De Graaf De Grave Hermans Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Kneppers-Heynert Knip Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman

Reformed Political Party (SGP: 1)	Holdijk

Socialist Party (SP: 8)	Elzinga Gerkens Kox Meijer Quik-Schuijt Reuten Ruers Slagter-Roukema

Bold signifies the parliamentary group leader Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member See also: Current MPs of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands