1. Jeroen Dijsselbloem served as President of the Eurogroup from 21 January 2013 to 12 January 2018 and President of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism from 11 February 2013 until 12 January 2018.
16 Facts About Jeroen Dijsselbloem
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem was successively Chairman of the Dutch Safety Board from 1 May 2019 to September 2022.
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Jeroen Rene Victor Anton Dijsselbloem was born on 29 March 1966 in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem went to a Roman Catholic primary school in Son en Breugel and the Catholic secondary school Eckartcollege in Eindhoven.
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem studied at the Wageningen University between 1985 and 1991, where he obtained an engineer's degree in agricultural economics in 1991, majoring in business economics, agricultural policy, and social and economic history.
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem subsequently did research in business economics at the University College Cork in Ireland, but he did not graduate from this university.
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From 2000 to 2012, Jeroen Dijsselbloem was elected to the House of Representatives for the Labour Party, with a brief interruption after the 2002 general elections where the Labour Party suffered a major defeat.
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem focused on matters of youth care, special education and teachers.
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On 15 November 2012, Jeroen Dijsselbloem was appointed by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to serve as Minister of Finance in the Second Rutte cabinet.
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem was succeeded as Minister of Finance by Wopke Hoekstra on 26 October 2017.
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem resigned from the House of Representatives the day before, while having been reelected during the 2017 Dutch general election in March; William Moorlag entered the States General to fill the vacancy.
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On 21 January 2013, Jeroen Dijsselbloem took office as President of the Eurogroup, a grouping of the Ministers of Finance of the Eurozone, those member states of the European Union which have adopted the euro as their official currency; he succeeded Jean-Claude Juncker.
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On 26 March 2013, Jeroen Dijsselbloem said explicitly that he did not consider the Cyprus case to be a template.
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Ahead of the summit, Jeroen Dijsselbloem questioned whether the Greek proposals were credible.
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Meanwhile, on 5 June 2015, Jeroen Dijsselbloem announced he would seek a second term, prompting de Guindos saying he would mount a challenge.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called on Jeroen Dijsselbloem to quit, saying that "if he wants to offend Italy, he should do it in a sports bar back home, not in his institutional role".