member of the Senate since 11 June 2019
What was the position of Mei Li Vos from Jun 2019 to Jun 2020?
Mei Li Vos Mei Li Vos ( ; born 31 March 1970 ) is a Dutch politician , former trade unionist and editorialist . A member of the Labour Party ( PvdA ) , she was a member of the House of Representatives from 1 March 2007 to 17 June 2010 and again from 20 September 2012 until 23 March 2017 . She has been a member of the Senate since 11 June 2019 . Early life . Mei Li Vos was born on 31 March 1970 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands . Vos comes from a family with five brothers . Her mother was Chinese Indonesian , established in the Dutch East Indies . During her youth her family lived in a Christian commune in Veldhoven . Between 1982 and 1988 she attended the vwo at the Christian Lyceum in Arnhem . Academic career . Between 1988 and 1989 she studied General Social Science at the University of Utrecht . Vos studied political science at the University of Amsterdam . Between 1994 and 2002 she worked as teacher and researcher at the political science department of the University of Amsterdam . In 1994-1995 she also worked part-time as manager of the Maarten Altena Ensemble . From 1995 and 2000 she worked on her thesis , which concerned the relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia . She specifically researched what the effect was of Indonesia refusing development cooperation of the Netherlands on cooperation in higher education , industry and the legal profession . Her thesis was titled International cooperation between politics and practice : how Dutch Indonesian cooperation changed remarkably little after a diplomatic rupture . Since 2000 she also worked part-time as a researcher at the think tank Infodrome , where she wrote a study on the information revolution and its effect on society . Based on her work here she published two books on the information society . In 2001 she was promoted there at the Political Science department . Between 2002 and 2004 she worked at United Knowledge , where she advised the government on the information society . Based on her work advising the Ministry of Economic Affairs she published a book on empowerment . Between 2004 and 2005 she worked at the Ministry of General Affairs and the government PR service . As such she coordinated the norms and values cabinet project . Alternative for Trade Union . In 2005 she was one of the founders of the Alternative for Trade Union ( Alternatief voor Vakbond , AVV ) , a trade union specifically oriented at young people , part-time employed , freelancers , with temporary work and people on a flexible contract . The union was founded as an alternative for the FNV , which was , according to AVV-founders too concerned with the interest of elderly workers . In 2005 she became the unions chair . Additionally she got a column with the Vrij Nederland and the De Volkskrant . She also worked for the Ministry of Justice as a researcher on the relationship between migration , integration and the welfare state . In 2006 she published a book the workers paradise on the future of the welfare state , employment and labour . Political career . In the 2006 elections Vos was placed on place 38 of the list of the PvdA . Both the conservative liberal VVD and the progressive liberal D66 had asked Vos to consider running for them . Because of the PvdA did not perform particularly well in the elections , Vos was not elected immediately . When several MPs became minister in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet Vos did get a seat . Vos was spokesperson on freelancer- , temporarily employed and consumer affairs . She sat on the commissions on finance , European Affairs , Economic Affairs , Social Affairs and the Environment . Vos also was member of the board of directors of the public radio broadcaster FunX . As an MP she wanted to give free lancers and the temporarily employed a voice in parliament and share the risks of a dynamic labour market more equally between free lancers , part-time employed and temporarily employed and people with a fixed contract . Vos considers herself to be a social liberal , while the PvdA is a social-democratic party . Her term in the House ended on 23 March 2017 .