15 Facts About Anne-Marijke Podt

Anne-Marijke Podt was born on 16 January 1975 and is a Dutch politician of the social liberal party Democrats 66, who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since September 2021.

Anne-Marijke Podt had previously been a member of the Utrecht municipal council starting in 2014, and she has worked as an aid worker and as an independent adviser for municipalities.

Anne-Marijke Podt's father was the manager of a factory of plastic products that her grandfather had founded.

Anne-Marijke Podt attended the secondary school De Lage Waard and graduated in 1994 with an atheneum diploma.

Anne-Marijke Podt subsequently studied industrial design engineering at Delft University of Technology for eight years, including one year as a full-time board member of a student association, and did an internship in Nicaragua.

Anne-Marijke Podt then took a job in 2005 at the non-profit International Institute for Communication and Development as a monitoring and evaluation expert and filled that position for five years.

Anne-Marijke Podt left the foundation in 2014 to work as a freelance social adviser for municipalities under the name A Single Step.

Anne-Marijke Podt ran for the Utrecht municipal council in 2014 and was elected as D66's seventh candidate.

Anne-Marijke Podt successfully pled for unisex toilets in municipal buildings in 2016 to make them more attractive for transgender people, making Utrecht the first municipality in the Netherlands to have them in its city hall.

Anne-Marijke Podt was re-elected in 2018, being placed second on D66's party list, and became her party's vice caucus chair.

Anne-Marijke Podt's specialties changed to work, income, LGBTI, refugees, integration, social shelters, and addiction treatment.

Anne-Marijke Podt participated in the March 2021 general election as D66's 26th candidate.

Anne-Marijke Podt received 3,919 preference votes and was not elected, as her party won 24 seats.

Anne-Marijke Podt wrote a policy proposal to mostly remove labor restrictions for asylum seekers.

Anne-Marijke Podt has been living in the city of Utrecht since the second half of the 2000s.