Minister Verhagen will be one of our speakers for TEIMUN 2010

The Board of Directors proudly announces that Minister Verhagen will be one of our speakers at the opening of TEIMUN 2010!

Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen (born September 14, 1956) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and he was since February 22, 2007 Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Balkenende IV.

Verhagen was born in Maastricht. He studied at Leiden University where he obtained an M.A. in history in 1986. For a brief period during his college years, Verhagen affiliated both with leftish-radicalism and the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD); he joined the CDA in 1976.

Verhagen started working for the CDA and was elected to the city council of Oegstgeest. From 1989 to 1994, he was a member of the European Parliament. On 17 May 1994 he became a member of the Dutch House of Representatives. On 11 July 2002 he became Fractievoorzitter (chairman of the parliamentary group) of the CDA. After becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet, in 2007, he was succeeded in that position by Pieter van Geel.