Kajsa Ollongren

Karin Hildur "Kajsa" Ollongren (born 28 May 1967 in Leiden) is a Dutch politician of Democrats 66 (D66) and a former civil servant. She is the current minister of Defence in the Fourth Rutte cabinet.

Ollongren studied economics and history at the University of Amsterdam, public administration at the École nationale d'administration in Paris and internal relations at Clingendael Institute in The Hague.

From 1992 to 2007, she worked at the Economics Ministry, and from 2007 to 2014 at the Interior Ministry (she had been leading last Ministry since 2011).

She became an alderman of the city of Amsterdam in 2014.

From 2017 to 2022, she was minister of Internal Affairs and also second Deputy Prime Minister in the Third Rutte cabinet.The two other Deputy Prime Ministers were Hugo de Jonge (CDA) and Carola Schouten (CU). Since January 2022, she has been Defence minister in Rutte IV.

Kajsa Ollongren is a noblewoman, and has also the Swedish nationality (her mother is Swedish). She is a lesbian and married to a woman. Together they have two children.

 Other websites 
 Bio at Government.nl

 References 
 Bio at Parlement.com

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