Johanna Levina Adriana Boogerd-Quaak was born on 1 March 1944 and is a Dutch politician who served two terms as a Member of the European Parliament in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 and again between 2003 and 2004.
12 Facts About Johanna Boogerd-Quaak
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak is a member of the Democrats 66 party and of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1999.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak is a member of the Democrats 66 party.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak was chair of the Zeeland Environmental Platform; president of the Regional Board for Labour' Facility Zeeland, and served as Humanitas's transition manager between 1992 and 1994.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group in the 1994 European Parliament election in the Netherlands for an elected period from 19 July 1994 to 19 July 1999.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak was a substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and twice on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau in September 1999 for her work in daycare and elderly centres and received the honour at a ceremony in Brussels.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak was elected to the municipal council of Terneuzen and served on it from 14 March 2002 to February 2003.
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On 5 February 2003, Johanna Boogerd-Quaak replaced Lousewies van der Laan as a member of the European Parliament for the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group following the latter's election to the House of Representatives.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak was appointed vice-chair of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs on 13 March 2003.
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Johanna Boogerd-Quaak earned a nomination for MEP of the Year in November 2004 because her efforts meant the European Union withdrew a proposal to transfer all sorts of data to authorities of the United States.