1. Eduard Jan Bomhoff was born on 30 September 1944 and is a Dutch economist, professor and retired politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport for the Pim Fortuyn List in the first Balkenende cabinet from 22 July 2002 until 16 October 2002.
Eduard Bomhoff since worked as an economics professor at the Monash University Malaysia Campus in Kuala Lumpur.
Eduard Jan Bomhoff was born on 30 September 1944 in Amsterdam in an Old Catholic family as the son of Jacobus Gerardus Bomhoff a Minister and professor of literature and Riet van Rhijn.
Eduard Bomhoff earned the rank of professor in 1981, and served as director of the Rochester-Erasmus Executive Master of Business Administration program from 1986 to 1989.
Eduard Bomhoff later served as a professor of finance at the Nyenrode Business Universiteit.
Eduard Bomhoff was a columnist for the NRC Handelsblad from 1989 until 2002.
Eduard Bomhoff became a member of the Labor Party in 1972 but became a critic of the party in his columns and argued there was too much of a gap between its leaders and supporters.
Eduard Bomhoff served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the first Balkenende cabinet from 22 July 2002 to his resignation on 16 October of that year.
Heinsbroek stated publicly that Eduard Bomhoff was a failure as Deputy Prime Minister and started testing the waters for a new political party.
Eduard Bomhoff told his colleagues that this would not work and predicted the other parties in the cabinet would not allow the LPF to replace them, but they forced him and Heinsbroek to resign anyway.
Eduard Bomhoff returned to academia after leaving the government, accepting positions as a professor first at the University of Bahrain and later at the University of Nottingham.
Eduard Bomhoff was the dean of the social sciences faculty at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Eduard Bomhoff then served as a professor of Economics in Monash University's Sunway Campus in Malaysia, in the School of Business before retiring from academic work in 2023.
Eduard Bomhoff has written a book about his time in government, titled Blinde Ambitie which remains the only detailed book on the Balkenende I cabinet.
Eduard Bomhoff has been the Malaysian principal researcher for the World Values Survey and has published his recent research in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and in Public Choice and worked as an advisor to the Bank of Japan.
Eduard Bomhoff belongs to the Old Catholic Church but considers his religion a private matter.
Eduard Bomhoff is married since 1976 and has two children.