Gert-Jan Segers

Gert-Jan Segers
Party leader
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 November 2015
Preceded by	Arie Slob
Parliamentary group leader
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 November 2015
Preceded by	Arie Slob
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 September 2012
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 has been political leader since 2015.

He has been a member of the Second Chamber since 2012 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