religion birth_place nationality party office birth_date term_start residence birthname article_title name occupation alma_mater
restored reformed church driebergen-rijsenburg , netherlands dutch reformed political party member of the senate 22 november 1971 june 9 , 2015 benthuizen , netherlands diederik j.h. van dijk diederik van dijk
 diederik van dijk politician , director , columnist utrecht university -lrb- llm , law -rrb-
diederik van dijk

diederik j.h. van dijk -lrb- born november 22 , 1971 in driebergen-rijsenburg -rrb- is a dutch non-executive director and a politician of the reformed political party -lrb- sgp -rrb- .
since june 9 , 2015 , he has been a member of the senate .
van dijk studied law at utrecht university .
since 1996 , he has been a policy assistant to the reformed political party fraction in the house of representatives , dealing with foreign affairs , defense , european affairs , infrastructure and environment .
in the past , he was among others chair of the reformed political party election committee in the hague , a member of the board of directors of the reformed teachers ' college driestar hogeschool at gouda , and an elder as well as chair of the diaconate in the dutch reformed bethlehemkerk at the hague .
nowadays he is among others a member of the supervisory board of the reformed news media company erdee media groep as well as of the care facilities sorg and lelie zorggroep , and an elder in the restored reformed church at waddinxveen .
diederik van dijk is married and lives in benthuizen .
