1. Olaf Rene Ephraim was born on 30 September 1965 and is a Dutch investment banker and politician.
21 Facts About Olaf Ephraim
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Olaf Ephraim worked for the banks MeesPierson and Fortis before joining the conservative and right-wing populist party Forum for Democracy.
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Olaf Ephraim left Forum for Democracy in May 2021 and joined Wybren van Haga's new political party Belang van Nederland.
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Olaf Ephraim left its parliamentary caucus ahead of the 2023 general election, continuing as an independent politician, but he retained his membership of BVNL.
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Olaf Ephraim was born in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam.
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Olaf Ephraim's father was a physician, who had helped Jewish children who had gone into hiding during World War II.
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Olaf Ephraim grew up in the region the Gooi and attended the secondary school Het Baarnsch Lyceum, located in Baarn, at gymnasium level between 1978 and 1983.
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Olaf Ephraim subsequently studied at the University of Amsterdam, obtaining a in law in 1985 and a degree in business economics in 1987.
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Olaf Ephraim served as a strategic planner and senior risk manager starting in 1994.
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When Fortis acquired MeesPierson in 1996, Olaf Ephraim was named managing director of MeesPierson Trading Partners.
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Olaf Ephraim started working as co-head of Global Securities Lending and Arbitrage, which would become Fortis's most profitable division, in 1999.
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Olaf Ephraim later became a guest teacher at the Academy for Banking and Insurance, a cooperation between the University of Amsterdam and NIBE-SVV.
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Olaf Ephraim became a Forum for Democracy member in 2017 and joined its board as treasurer in November 2019, a few months after the previous treasurer, Henk Otten, had been expelled from the party.
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Olaf Ephraim rose to spot three on the 2021 general election party list due to prominent members leaving Forum for Democracy because of the events.
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Olaf Ephraim was elected member of the House of Representatives in the March 2021 election with 989 preference votes and was sworn in on 31 March.
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Olaf Ephraim left all committees that he had been a member of with the exception of the Art committee.
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Olaf Ephraim was one of the party's in Amsterdam in the 2022 municipal elections.
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Olaf Ephraim told he would remain a member of BVNL.
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Olaf Ephraim is married to Mieke Wennekes, who works in the financial sector, and he has two daughters.
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Olaf Ephraim has been playing chess since his youth and has participated in multiple editions of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
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Olaf Ephraim performed on stage as a comedian in the early 2000s.