Speakers
You can see the first speaker for TEIMUN 2010 below.
Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm (born 6 May 1952) is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Netherlands. He was the longest serving Minister of Finance in the history of the Netherlands and he has been responsible for numerous reforms of the Dutch economy. Furthermore he had a clear voice in European monetary relations as he demanded the application of the strict rules of the Stability and Growth Pact by all the European Union member states. Especially southern European countries had problems dealing with these criteria. In 2006 he stepped down from politics and ended up working for the DSB bank. On 21 November 2008 it was announced by the Dutch Prime minister Balkenende that Zalm would be the new CEO of the newly merged and nationalized banks, ABN-AMRO and Fortis Netherlands.
Eimert van Middelkoop
Eimert van Middelkoop is a Dutch politician of the ChristianUnion and has been Minister of Defence in the Cabinet Balkeneinde IV since February 22, 2007.
Maxime Verhagen
Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen (born September 14, 1956) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and 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.
