Gert-Jan Segers

Gert-Jan Segers
Party leader
In office 10 November 2015 – 17 January 2023
Preceded by	Arie Slob
Succeeded by	Mirjam Bikker
Parliamentary group leader
In office 10 November 2015 – 17 January 2023
Preceded by	Arie Slob
Succeeded by	Mirjam Bikker
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 20 September 2012 – 24 January 2023
Personal details
Born	Gert Jan Maarten Segers (1969-07-09) 9 July 1969 Lisse, South Holland, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	ChristianUnion (CU) Reformatory Political Federation (RPF) (-2001)
Residence	Hoogland, Utrecht, Netherlands
Alma mater	Leiden University, Johns Hopkins University
Website	www.parlement.com

Gert-Jan Maarten Segers (born 9 July 1969 in Lisse) is a Dutch writer and politician of the ChristianUnion (CU). He was political leader from 2015 to 2023.

He was a member of the Second Chamber from 2012 to 2023 and a parliamentary leader since 2015.

Segers studied political science at Leiden University. He worked as an assistant to the RPF parliamentary group and briefly as a radio journalist at the Dutch Evangelical Broadcasting (EO). Successively he was a missionary in Egypt for seven years, whereafter he obtained a masters in Western-Islam relations and the Middle East at the Johns Hopkins University. Afterwards he headed the scientific institute of the ChristianUnion.

Segers has written several novels and non-fiction books, and is also a columnist of the Dutch Protestant newspaper Nederlands Dagblad.

He is a Reformed Christian.

References

• (in Dutch) Bio at Parlement.com

Other websites

• Bio at the House of Representatives of The Netherlands