Sybilla Dekker

Her Excellency Sybilla Dekker
Sybilla Dekker in 2010

Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
In office 27 May 2003 – 21 September 2006
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Henk Kamp
Succeeded by	Karla Peijs (Ad interim)

Personal details
Born	Sybilla Maria Dekker (1942-03-23) 23 March 1942 Alkmaar, Netherlands
Political party	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Spouses	First husband (m. 1969; died 1977) Constant van Gestel (m. 1983; died 2005)
Domestic partner	Ben Bot (since 2007)
Residence(s)	The Hague, Netherlands
Alma mater	Utrecht University (Bachelor of Business Management)
Occupation	Politician · Civil servant · Businesswoman · Corporate director · Nonprofit director · Trade association executive · Management consultant · Social worker

Sybilla Maria Dekker (born 23 March 1942) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businesswoman. She was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 22 June 2018.^[1]

A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), she was minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the second and third Balkenende cabinets. She resigned on 21 September 2006, after the publication of the Dutch Safety Board report about the fire that occurred in 2005 at the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, killing 11 people.^[2]

Since 2008, she has been the domestic partner of former Minister of Foreign Affairs Ben Bot.

Decorations

Ribbon bar	Honour	Country	Date	Comment
Honours
	Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau	Netherlands	11 April 2007
Honorific Titles
Ribbon bar	Honour	Country	Date	Comment
	Minister of State	Netherlands	22 June 2018	Style of Excellency

References

↑ "Benoeming minister van Staat" (in Dutch). Rijksoverheid. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
↑ Dijkman, Marinus; Schiller, A. (March 2005). Europe Real Estate Yearbook 2005. Real Estate Publishers BV. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-90-807761-7-3. Retrieved 26 September 2011.

External links

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Official

(in Dutch) S.M. (Sybilla) Dekker Parlement & Politiek

Ministers of State of the Netherlands
Current
Frits Korthals Altes 2001 Jaime Saleh 2004 Hans van den Broek 2005 Herman Tjeenk Willink 2012 Winnie Sorgdrager 2018 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer 2018 Sybilla Dekker 2018 Piet Hein Donner 2018 Jan Peter Balkenende 2022

Ministers of Housing and Spatial Planning of the Netherlands
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
Ringers Vos Neher 't Veld Witte Van Aartsen Bogaers Witte Schut Udink Gruijters Beelaerts van Blokland Tuijnman Van Dam Nypels Winsemius Nijpels Alders De Boer Pronk Kamp Dekker Peijs Winsemius Cramer Huizinga

Second Balkenende cabinet (2003–2006)
^{Preceded by: First Balkenende cabinet · Succeeded by: Third Balkenende cabinet}
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Ministers	Gerrit Zalm (Finance) Thom de Graaf (Government Reform and Kingdom Relations) (2003–2005) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (Economic Affairs) (2005–2006)
Ministers	Johan Remkes (Interior) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (Foreign Affairs) (2003) Ben Bot (Foreign Affairs) (from 2003) Piet Hein Donner (Justice) Gerrit Zalm (Economic Affairs) (ad interim) Henk Kamp (Defence) Hans Hoogervorst (Health, Welfare and Sport) Maria van der Hoeven (Education, Culture and Science) Karla Peijs (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Cees Veerman (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) Aart Jan de Geus (Social Affairs and Employment) Sybilla Dekker (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)
Ministers without portfolio	Rita Verdonk (Integration and Immigration) Agnes van Ardenne (Development Cooperation) Alexander Pechtold (Government Reform and Kingdom Relations) (2005–2006)
State secretaries	Atzo Nicolaï (Foreign Affairs) Joop Wijn (Finance) Karien van Gennip (Economic Affairs) Cees van der Knaap (Defence) Annette Nijs (Education, Culture and Science) (2003–2004) Medy van der Laan (Education, Culture and Science) Mark Rutte (Education, Culture and Science) (2004–2006) Bruno Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) (from 2006) Clémence Ross-van Dorp (Health, Welfare and Sport) Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Mark Rutte (Social Affairs and Employment) (2003–2004) Henk van Hoof (Social Affairs and Employment) (from 2004) Pieter van Geel (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

Third Balkenende cabinet (2006–2007)
Preceded by: Second Balkenende cabinet Succeeded by: Fourth Balkenende cabinet
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Minister	Gerrit Zalm (Finance)
Ministers	Johan Remkes (Interior) Ben Bot (Foreign Affairs) Piet Hein Donner (Justice) (2006) Rita Verdonk (Justice) (ad interim) Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Justice) (from 2006) Joop Wijn (Economic Affairs) Henk Kamp (Defence) Hans Hoogervorst (Health, Welfare and Sport) Maria van der Hoeven (Education, Culture and Science) Karla Peijs (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Cees Veerman (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) Aart Jan de Geus (Social Affairs and Employment) Sybilla Dekker (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) (2006) Pieter Winsemius (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) (from 2006)
Ministers without portfolio	Rita Verdonk (Integration and Immigration) Atzo Nicolaï (Government Reform and Kingdom Relations) Agnes van Ardenne (Development Cooperation)
State secretaries	Karien van Gennip (Economic Affairs) Cees van der Knaap (Defence) Clémence Ross-van Dorp (Health, Welfare and Sport) Bruno Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Henk van Hoof (Social Affairs and Employment) Pieter van Geel (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

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