Roland van Benthem

Roland van Benthem (born 24 February 1968 in Emmeloord) is a Dutch politician and former civil servant. Being a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) he currently is mayor of Eemnes.

Biography

Educated as a Chartered Accountant Van Benthem worked for the Tax and Customs Administration, at the Ministry of Finance as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Queen's Office.

From 1994 to 2005 he was a councillor of Zeist, which is a municipality of the province of Utrecht. From 2004 to 2007 he was a member of the States-Provincial of the province of Utrecht.[1] On 1 September 2005 he became mayor of Eemnes, which also is a municipality of the province of Utrecht.

Being homosexual he was treasurer of LGBT organization COC Nederland from 2001 to 2004.[2]

Decorations
gollark: In what way? We give them apiolectromagnetic hypercharge, so they can be contained fairly easily.
gollark: Black holes can offer the same conversion efficiency *and* you can actually get energy out.
gollark: I might be wiser in a few ways, but mostly I would have advanced future knowledge™.
gollark: I would then use this to subtly influence future (past) events I don't like, such as "brexit".
gollark: I could just attain money via ??? child things, spend it on some bitcoins (or even *mine* it, since it took a while for people to catch onto GPUs then ASICs) and then have 19024719827490 capital.

See also

References
  1. (in Dutch) Province of Utrecht website
  2. (in Dutch) Oud-penningmeester wordt burgemeester Eemnes, COC Nederland, July 5, 2005


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