Ingrid van Engelshoven


Ingrid Katharina van Engelshoven is a Dutch politician serving as Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Third Rutte cabinet since 26 October 2017.
A member of Democrats 66 party, she was the party chairwoman from 12 May 2007 until 9 March 2013; before her election to the House of Representatives in 2017, she had been an alderwoman in The Hague, from 26 June 2014 to 16 February 2017. Van Engelshoven studied political science at Radboud University Nijmegen and law at Leiden University. On 26 October 2017, she was appointed as Minister for Education, Culture and Science in Mark Rutte's third cabinet, the first member of her party to hold the position.