Sigrid Kaag

**Sigrid Agnes Maria Kaag** (born 2 November 1961) is a Dutch politician. She is party leader of Democrats 66 (D66). She is finance minister and also first Deputy Prime Minister in the Fourth Rutte cabinet. She was foreign minister in the Third Rutte cabinet, but stepped down in September 2021 because the evacuation of Afghans who worked for the Netherlands and tried to flee from the Taliban after they conquered Afghanistan, did not quite go well. Defense minister Ank Bijleveld resigned next day. She was also minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Third Rutte cabinet from October 2017 to August 2021, and has been D66 leader since September 2020 (succeeded Alexander Pechtold).

Kaag was born in Rijswijk and grew up in Zeist.

She studied Arabic, Middle East studies, and international relations. She studied at Utrecht University, the American University in Cairo, Oxford University, and the University of Exeter.

She worked in several positions at the United Nations, for example at UNICEF and as an Under-Secretary-General.

She is a Catholic, and married to a Palestinian dentist. Her husband is a former diplomat and politician of the PLO. Kaag is fluent in six languages, among which Arabic, Spanish, French, and German.

## References

- Parlement.com

## Other websites

- Bio at Government.nl

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Sigrid Kaag
- **image**: Sigrid Kaag in 2018 (cropped).jpeg
- **office**: First Deputy Prime Minister
- **status**: Fourth Rutte cabinet
- **term start**: 10 January 2022
- **alongside**: Wopke Hoekstra
 and Carola Schouten
- **predecessor**: Hugo de Jonge
- **office1**: Minister of Finance
- **term start1**: 10 January 2022
- **predecessor1**: Wopke Hoekstra
- **office2**: Member of the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives
- **term start2**: 31 March 2021
- **term end2**: 10 January 2022
- **office3**: Parliamentary group leader
- **term start3**: 28 September 2021
- **term end3**: 10 January 2022
- **predecessor3**: Rob Jetten
- **successor3**: Jan Paternotte
- **term start4**: 18 March 2021
- **term end4**: 25 May 2021
- **predecessor4**: Rob Jetten
- **successor4**: Rob Jetten
- **office5**: Party leader
- **term start5**: 4 September 2020
- **predecessor5**: Alexander Pechtold
- **office6**: Minister of Foreign Affairs
- **term start6**: 25 May 2021
- **term end6**: 17 September 2021
- **predecessor6**: Stef Blok
- **successor6**: Henk Kamp
- **term start7**: 13 February 2018
- **term end7**: 7 March 2018
(acting)
- **predecessor7**: Halbe Zijlstra
- **successor7**: Stef Blok
- **office8**: Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
- **term start8**: 26 October 2017
- **term end8**: 10 August 2021
- **predecessor8**: Lilianne Ploumen
- **successor8**: Tom de Bruijn
- **birth name**: Sigrid Agnes Maria Kaag
- **birth place**: Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands
- **nationality**: Netherlands, Dutch
- **party**: Democrats 66 (D66)
- **residence**: The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
- **alma mater**: Utrecht University,
 American University in Cairo,
 Oxford University,
 University of Exeter
- **website**: [https://www.parlement.com/id/vkim9kf9hxwy/s_a_m_sigrid_kaag www.parlement.com]