Curriculum Vitea of Hedy d. Ancona

 

Education:        HBS-b in Leiden

                        PhD in Social Geography, University of Amsterdam, 1963

 

Career:

 

1962- 1965      Producer, Host, Editor at VARA-NOS Television

 

1965- 1975      Lecturer in Social Geography at the University of Amsterdam

 

1975- 1982      Director of a Center of Policy Research for Government

 

1974- 1981      Member of the Dutch Senate, for the Labour Party (PvdA)

                        Spokesperson for Public Housing, and Town & Country Planning

 

1981-1982             State Secretary of Social Affairs and Employment, responsible for Emancipation issues, Working Conditions and Adult Education

 

1984-1989             Member of the European Parliament

Chair of the Commission on Equal Rights for Women

Chair of the Commission on Social Affairs and Employment

 

1989-1994             Dutch Minister of Welfare, Public Health and Culture

 

1994-1999             Member of the European Parliament

Vice- chair of the European Committee of the Social Democrats

Until 1996        Chair of the Commission of Urgent Resolutions (dealing with Political and

            other Emergencies, Human rights . and indigenous issues)

From 1996       Chair of the Commission of Justice and Home Affairs, and thus Spokesperson

 on issues regarding Refugees, Minority Rights, Human Rights within the EU, and Drugs.

 

1999 Onwards Chair of various cultural institutions

                        Government advisor on Welfare Policies

                        Free-lance Journalist

 

Since 1995       Chair of the Board of Novib (the Dutch Oxfam)

Since 1999       Vice-chair of Oxfam International