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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

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Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer (Dutch: [ˈjaːb də ɦoːp ˈsxɛfər] ; born 3 April 1948) is a Dutch retired politician, jurist and diplomat who served as the eleventh Secretary General of NATO from January 2004 to August 2009. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which he led from March 1997 to October 2001, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 2002 until December 2003 under Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. De Hoop Scheffer studied law at Leiden University obtaining a Master of Laws degree before he worked as a civil servant and diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the diplomatic service from October 1976 until June 1986. In the 1986 general election he was elected as a member of the House of Representatives, where he served a frontbencher and spokesperson for foreign and European affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is the 4,304th most popular politician (up from 5,599th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 240th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ranks 4,304 out of 19,576. Before him are Childebert the Adopted, Autobiography of Harkhuf, Qara Yusuf, Vardan Mamikonian, Rhesus of Thrace, and Kiya. After him are Katō Kiyomasa, Jindeok of Silla, Zhu Rongji, Justa Grata Honoria, Barak, and Valdemar, King of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ranks 89. Before him are Svetlana Savitskaya, Edmund Kemper, Jayalalithaa, Ichirou Mizuki, Raymond Leo Burke, and Charles Maung Bo. After him are Dominique Sanda, René Arnoux, Beppe Grillo, Alan Parsons, Chris de Burgh, and Stephen Schwartz.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ranks 159 out of 1,646. Before him are Johnny Rep (1951), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498), Corry Brokken (1932), Jeroen Krabbé (1944), Willy van de Kerkhof (1951), and Frederick de Houtman (1571). After him are Rodolphus Agricola (1443), Rachel Ruysch (1664), Bert van Marwijk (1952), Roméo Dallaire (1946), Martinus Beijerinck (1851), and Gustav Leonhardt (1928).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ranks 19. Before him are Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584), William V, Prince of Orange (1748), William IV, Prince of Orange (1711), Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576), Wim Kok (1938), and Princess Irene of the Netherlands (1939). After him are Roméo Dallaire (1946), Pim Fortuyn (1948), Ruud Lubbers (1939), Geert Wilders (1963), Wim Duisenberg (1935), and Margaret of Bavaria (1363).

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