Joop Atsma

Committees

• Foreign Affairs
• European Affairs
• Economic Affairs
• Finance
• Education, Culture and Science
• Public Expenditure committee
• Spatial Planning, Housing and the Environment
• Transport, Public Works and Water Management
• Health, Welfare and Sport
• Housing, Communities and Integration
• Dutch Group at the Interparliamentary Union
• Presidium

Education

• Grammar school (arts subjects) in Drachten, until 1974
• History (course not completed) at the State University of Groningen, from 1974 to 1978

Career

• Journalist for newspaper and television organizations including ANP, NOS, Friesch Dagblad, Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, Omrop Fryslan, from 1978 to 1998
• PR consultant
• Director/owner of PR and organization agency J. Atsma until 1998
• Member of Provincial States for Friesland, from 1991 to 1999
• Member of the Dutch House of Representatives, since 19 May 1998