19 Facts About Raoul Boucke

Raoul Marc Boucke was born on 1 November 1975 and is a Surinamese-Dutch civil servant and politician, who has served as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021.

Raoul Boucke is a member of the social liberal party Democrats 66.

Raoul Boucke was born in 1975 in the Surinamese capital Paramaribo.

Raoul Boucke grew up in Moengo with his brother and sister, and his family moved to Paramaribo when Boucke was eight years old.

Raoul Boucke emigrated to the Netherlands in 1993 to study chemical engineering at the Delft University of Technology.

Raoul Boucke graduated eight years later and became a Dutch citizen in 2002.

Raoul Boucke started working as a civil servant for the European Union in Brussels in 2007.

Raoul Boucke was first employed for four years by the permanent representation of the Netherlands to the EU, focusing on the environment, and subsequently served as an advisor on carbon markets to the Directorate-General for Climate Action of the European Commission.

Raoul Boucke left that job in January 2020 to work at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management on aviation.

Raoul Boucke became a member of Democrats 66 in 2002 and, starting in 2011, served as the chair of D66 in Belgium and Luxembourg, a position he would hold until 2017.

Raoul Boucke ran for Member of the European Parliament in the 2014 election, being placed fifth on D66's party list.

Raoul Boucke received 6,663 preferential votes, but was not elected due to his party winning four seats.

Once again, Raoul Boucke was not elected; D66 won two seats, but the number three on the party list, Samira Rafaela, received more preferential votes than Raoul Boucke's 22,500.

Raoul Boucke ran for member of parliament in the 2021 general election, appearing on the D66's party list as their tenth candidate.

Raoul Boucke was elected this time and received 3,518 preferential votes.

Raoul Boucke is on the parliamentary Committees for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy; for European Affairs ; and for Infrastructure and Water Management, as well as on the Belgium contact group.

Raoul Boucke pled for large-scale investments in hydrogen fuel for the industrial sector in order to mitigate climate change.

Raoul Boucke argued in an opinion piece that there will no longer be place in the Netherlands for some polluting companies in the industrial sector.

Raoul Boucke is married and his husband is called Jurgen.