12 Facts About Jorien Wuite

Jorien Wuite moved back to the European part of the Netherlands due to her election to the House of Representatives in 2021 as a member of the social liberal party Democrats 66.

Jorien Wuite subsequently moved to Sint Maarten with her family in 1997 to serve as the director of Sector Health Care Affairs for the Sint Maarten government.

Jorien Wuite became director of the Sector Public Health, Social Development and Labor Affairs in 2008 and filled that position until she was appointed secretary-general of that ministry two years later.

Jorien Wuite was the secretary-general of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports between 2014 and 2018.

Jorien Wuite was sworn in on 15 January and appeared again on the ballot in the February 2018 general election as the UD's twelfth candidate.

Jorien Wuite ran for member of Sint Maarten's parliament in the 2020 general election as the UD's third candidate, but did not receive a seat.

Jorien Wuite called the country's problems immense and particularly complex, and her campaign was described as "surprisingly substantive" for Sint Maarten standards by de Volkskrant.

Jorien Wuite's term ended on 19 November 2019, and she subsequently became a strategic advisor at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports concerned with reconstruction projects in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.

Jorien Wuite joined the Dutch political party D66 in early 2020 and decided to run for member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands in the 2021 general election.

Jorien Wuite said during the campaign that it was necessary to renew the relations between the constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Jorien Wuite is a member of the Interparliamentary Committee on the Dutch Language Union, and she is on the Committees for Education, Culture and Science; for Foreign Affairs; for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation ; and for Kingdom Relations.

Jorien Wuite was an ambassador of the Dutch Black Achievement Month in 2019 and the foundation's chair in early 2021, and she has been working as a Caribbean scout for the Dutch Research Council since April 2020.