Kathleen Ferrier

Committees

• Foreign Affairs
• Defence
• European Affairs
• Education, Culture and Science
• Health, Welfare and Sport
• Youth and Family
• Euro-Mediterrenean Parliamentary Assembly
• Dutch parliamentary delegation to the OSCE

Education

• Public Free High School (hbs) in Paramaribo, from 1969 to 1973
• Grammar school Protestant Visser ’t Hooft Lyceum in Leiden, from 1973 to 1976
• Spanish language and literature, Portuguese and development cooperation: modern Spanish-American literature, at the State University of Leiden, from 1976 to 1984, doctoraal degree in June 1984
• Course ‘Primary Health Care’, 1985
• Course ‘Women and Development’, 1992

Career

• Research assistant in development cooperation at the State University of Leiden, from 1979 to 1981
• Summer stewardess for the KLM airline, from 1981 to 1984
• Development cooperation expert in Chile, from 1984 to 1991
• Member of the executive team 'Fundação Samuel' in São Paulo (Brazil), from 1991 to 1994
• Secretary of Latin American Calvinist Churches in the Netherlands, from 1996 to 1999
• General secretary of SKIN (Samen Kerk in Nederland), an independent association of migrant churches in the Netherlands, from 1994 to May 2002
• Member of the Dutch House of Representatives, since 23 May 2002