Laurens Dassen

Laurens Antonius Josephus Maria Dassen (born 19 October 1985) is a Dutch politician and former bank employee.

Dassen was born in Eindhoven and grew up in Knegsel, a village in the North Brabant municipality of Eersel. He studied business sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen and worked at ABN AMRO abroad.

In summer 2018 he was a co-founder of Volt Netherlands, a department of the pan-European political party Volt Europe established in Italy in 2017. Since December 2018, he has chaired Volt Netherlands.

Dassen led Volt Netherlands into the 2021 Dutch general election in March 2021. Volt gained three seats and so he has been both parliamentary group leader and an MP since March 2021.

 References 
 Bio at Parlement.com
 Brabants Dagblad

 Other websites 
 Dassen on the Volt website
 Bio at Dutch House of Representatives

Category:1985 births
Category:Living people
Category:Dutch party chairs
Category:Leaders of political parties in the Netherlands
Category:Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Category:Politicians from Eindhoven