Dick Benschop
Dick Benschop in 2012
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
23 May 2002 – 1 September 2002
Parliamentary groupLabour Party
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs
In office
3 August 1998 – 22 July 2002
Prime MinisterWim Kok
Preceded byMichiel Patijn
Succeeded byAgnes van Ardenne
Atzo Nicolaï
Personal details
Born
Dick Anne Benschop

(1957-11-05) 5 November 1957
Driebergen, Netherlands
Political partyLabour Party (from 1984)
Children3 children
Residence(s)Driebergen, Netherlands
Alma materVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
(Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts)
OccupationPolitician · historian · researcher · political consultant · businessman · corporate director · nonprofit director · academic administrator · teacher

Dick Anne Benschop (born 5 November 1957) is a former Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and businessman. He was the CEO and chairman of the Schiphol Group since 1 May 2018 until 1 November 2022 and chairman of the Orange Foundation since 1 June 2017.[1][2]

Career

Benschop worked as a political consultant for the Labour Party from 1986 until 1996. After the election of 1998 Benschop was appointed as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Kok II, serving from 3 August 1998 until 22 July 2002.

Benschop served as the Labour Party campaign manager for the election of 2002. The Labour Party suffered a big defeat in the election losing 23 seats in the House of Representatives, Leader of the Labour Party and Lijsttrekker (top candidate) Ad Melkert accepted responsibility for the defeat and sequentially left national politics. Benschop who was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election, also took responsibility for the defeat and served in the House of Representatives from 23 May 2002 until his resignation on 1 September 2002.

He served as CEO of the Schiphol airport group until Sept 2022, when he resigned following months of chaos. [3] [4]

Other activities

Decorations

Honours
Ribbon barHonourCountryDateComment
Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau Netherlands 10 December 2002

References

  1. ↑ "Nieuwe directeur voor Oranje Fonds" (in Dutch). Vorsten.nl. 2 May 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "Dick Benschop definitief nieuwe topman Schiphol" (in Dutch). NOS. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "Chaos returns to Amsterdam Schiphol as security staffers massively look for jobs elsewhere; airport asks airlines to start canceling flights". 12 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Schiphol airport chief resigns over flight disruption". Financial Times. 15 September 2022.
  5. ↑ Membership Archived 2 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine Trilateral Commission.
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