- Jo Ritzen
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name = Jozef Marie Mathias Ritzen
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office = Minister of Education, Culture, and Sciences
term_start =22 August 1994
term_end =3 August 1998
primeminister =Wim Kok
predecessor = "Office created"
successor =Loek Hermans
office2 = Minister of Education and Sciences
term_start2 =7 November 1989
term_end2 =22 August 1994
primeminister2 =Ruud Lubbers
predecessor2 =Gerrit Braks
successor2 = "Office abolished"
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birth_place =Heerlen ,Netherlands
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nationality = Dutch
party = Labour Party (PvdA)
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footnotes =Jozef Marie Mathias "Jo" Ritzen (born
3 October 1945 ) is a Dutcheconomist and social-democraticpolitician .Early life
Jo Ritzen was born on
3 October 1945 inHeerlen ,Netherlands .Education
Ritzen started in 1963 on
Bernardinus College in Heerlen. In 1970 he obtained anengineering degree inphysics from the Technische Hogeschool Delft, nowTechnische Universiteit Delft . He received hisPhD at theErasmus Universiteit inRotterdam with a thesis abouteducation ,economic growth , andincome inequality metrics .Work
Before entering politics, Ritzen worked, among other places, at the
Erasmus Universiteit , Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (nowRadboud University ), and at theUniversity of California, Berkeley .In 1989 he became Minister of Education and Sciences in the cabinet Lubbers 3. In the same cabinet he was Minister of Welfare, Health, and Culture for a month in 1994. That same year, with the instalation of the cabinet Kok 1, he became Minister of Education, Culture, and Sciences.
As a minister he introduced the OV-studentenkaart in 1990, a card the gives free
public transportation to students, and the Prestatiebeurs, a new form of student financing. The introduction of the Prestatiebeurs let to great resistance from the LSVb.After his last ministership he became one of the 30
vicepresident s of theWorldbank .He currently is president of
Universiteit Maastricht .Externe link
* [http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/02965 Biography on parlement.com]
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