Marieke Koekkoek was born on 26 February 1989 and is a Dutch lawyer and politician for the pro-European party Volt Netherlands.
16 Facts About Marieke Koekkoek
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Marieke Koekkoek was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2021 general election owing to the number of preference votes she received.
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Marieke Koekkoek was a member of its study association Urios and chaired Urios's Model United Nations Society.
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In October 2013, Marieke Koekkoek joined the KU Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies as a PhD student and researcher.
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Marieke Koekkoek specialized in international commercial law and returned to the Netherlands in 2017, while she kept working at KU Leuven.
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Marieke Koekkoek lived in China for some time in 2019 to teach at the China-EU School of Law.
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Marieke Koekkoek became a legal intern for Fieldfisher in Amsterdam in September 2019.
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Marieke Koekkoek joined the new pro-European party Volt in 2018 after she had been a member of Democrats 66.
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Marieke Koekkoek was involved in creating the party's European platform and participated in the 2019 European Parliament election in the Netherlands as Volt's 22nd candidate.
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Marieke Koekkoek was placed fourth on the party list in the 2021 general election and again helped write the platform.
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Marieke Koekkoek wanted the procedure for asylum seekers to become quicker, and she wanted them to have the right to work and to learn the Dutch language while awaiting the results of their asylum application.
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Marieke Koekkoek was one of three candidates in the 2021 election who were elected due to their preference votes.
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Marieke Koekkoek called it a start and advocated making them free for everyone.
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Marieke Koekkoek vacated her seat between 15 March and 5 July 2023 to go on a parental leave and was temporarily replaced by Ernst Boutkan.
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Marieke Koekkoek headed the committee that wrote Volt's election program for the November 2023 general election.
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Marieke Koekkoek's husband is from China, having come to the Netherlands to study and work, and she has three children.