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Frank de Grave
De Grave in 2000

Extraordinary Member of the Council of State
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 September 2018
Vice President	Piet Hein Donner (2018) Thom de Graaf (from 2018)
Member of the Senate
In office 7 June 2011 – 3 September 2018
Minister of Defence
In office 3 August 1998 – 22 July 2002
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Joris Voorhoeve
Succeeded by	Benk Korthals
State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment
In office 2 July 1996 – 3 August 1998
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Robin Linschoten
Succeeded by	Hans Hoogervorst
Mayor of Amsterdam
Acting
In office 18 January 1994 – 1 June 1994
Preceded by	Ed van Thijn
Succeeded by	Schelto Patijn
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 23 May 2002 – 1 April 2004
In office 19 May 1998 – 3 August 1998
In office 16 September 1982 – 8 May 1990

Personal details
Born	Franciscus Hendrikus Gerardus de Grave (1955-06-27) 27 June 1955 (age 69) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Political party	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (from 1975)
Spouse	Dorienke Verkerk (m. 1985)
Children	2 children
Residence(s)	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Groningen (Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws)
Occupation	Politician · Civil servant · Jurist · Economist · Businessman · Banker · Corporate director · Nonprofit director · Trade association executive · Political consultant
Military service
Allegiance	Netherlands
Branch/service	Royal Netherlands Army
Years of service	1979–1980 (Conscription) 1980–1985 (Reserve)
Rank	Lance corporal

Franciscus Hendrikus Gerardus "Frank" de Grave (born 27 June 1955) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman. He is an Extraordinary Member of the Council of State since 3 September 2018.

De Grave attended a gymnasium in Assen from March 1967 until May 1973 and applied at the University of Groningen in July 1973 majoring in Law and obtaining a Bachelor of Laws degree in June 1975 before graduating with a Master of Laws degree in July 1979. De Grave was conscripted in the Royal Netherlands Army serving as a Lance corporal from October 1979 until November 1980. De Grave served as chairman of the Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy (JOVD) from June 1978 until March 1980. De Grave worked as a political consultant for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy from November 1980 until September 1982. De Grave served on the Municipal Council of Amsterdam from April 1982 until September 1982.

De Grave was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1982 general election, taking office on 16 September 1982. In May 1990, De Grave was appointed as an Alderman in Amsterdam, he resigned from the House of Representatives the same day he was installed as installed as an Alderman, taking office on 8 May 1990. De Grave served as acting Mayor of Amsterdam from 18 January 1994 until 1 June 1994 following the appointment of Ed van Thijn as Minister of the Interior in the Lubbers III cabinet. De Grave was appointed as State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in the Kok I cabinet following the resignation of Robin Linschoten, taking office on 2 July 1996. After the 1998 general election De Grave returned to the House of Representatives, taking office on 19 May 1998. Following the cabinet formation of 1998, De Grave was appointment as Minister of Defence in the Kok II cabinet, taking office on 3 August 1998. The cabinet resigned on 16 April 2002 following the conclusions of the NIOD report into the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War and continued to serve in a demissionary capacity. After the 2002 general election, De Grave again returned to the House of Representatives, taking office on 23 May 2002. Following the cabinet formation of 2002 De Grave was not giving a cabinet post in the new Balkenende I cabinet, which took office on 22 July 2002, and he continued to serve in the House of Representatives as a frontbencher and spokesperson for finance. In March 2004, De Grave was nominated as chairman of the board of directors of the Council for Healthcare Supervision of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, he resigned from the House of Representatives the same day he was installed as chairman, taking office on 1 April 2004. In January 2006 the Council for Healthcare Supervision was renamed as the Healthcare Authority with De Grave continuing as chairman of the board of directors, serving from 1 January 2006 until 31 December 2008.

De Grave semi-retired from national politics and became active in the private sector and public sector and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards (DSB Bank, DSM Company, Natura Artis Magistra, Verwey-Jonker Institute, Heart Foundation and the Public Pension Funds PFZW) and served on several state commissions and councils on behalf of the government (SEO Economic Research and the Social and Economic Council). De Grave also worked as a trade association executive for the Medical Specialists association serving as chairman from 25 November 2010 until 1 January 2017 and for the Public Libraries association serving as chairman since 1 November 2010. De Grave was elected as to the Senate in the 2011 Senate election, taking office on 7 June 2011 serving as a frontbencher chairing the parliamentary committee for Finances and spokesperson for economic affairs, privatization and organ transplantation. In August 2018, De Grave was nominated as Member of the Council of State, he resigned from the Senate the same day he was installed as a member of the Council of State, taking office on 3 September 2018.

Decorations

Honours
Ribbon bar	Honour	Country	Date	Comment
	Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II	Belgium	18 February 2000
	Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau	Netherlands	10 December 2002

References

"Frank de Grave wordt lid Raad van State" (in Dutch). NOS. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.

External links

Mr. F.H.G. (Frank) de Grave Parlement & Politiek (in Dutch)
Mr. F.H.G. de Grave (VVD) Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch)

Political offices
Preceded byEd van Thijn	Mayor of Amsterdam Acting 1994	Succeeded bySchelto Patijn
Preceded byRobin Linschoten	State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment 1996–1998	Succeeded byHans Hoogervorst
Preceded byJoris Voorhoeve	Minister of Defence 1998–2002	Succeeded byBenk Korthals
Civic offices
Preceded byUnknown	Chairman of the Supervisory board of the Council for Healthcare Supervision 2004–2006	Succeeded byHimself as Chairman of the Supervisory board of the Dutch Healthcare Authority
Preceded byHimself as Chairman of the Supervisory board of the Council for Healthcare Supervision	Chairman of the Supervisory board of the Healthcare Authority 2006–2009	Succeeded byMarian Kaljouw
Business positions
Preceded byRuud Koedijk	Chairman of the Supervisory board of Natura Artis Magistra 2008–present	Incumbent
Preceded byGerrit Zalm	CFO of the DSB Bank 2009	Succeeded byUnknown
Preceded byUnknown	Chairman of the Executive Board of the Federation of Medical Specialists 2010–2017	Succeeded byMarcel Daniëls
Preceded byRuud Koedijk	Chairman of the Supervisory board of Public Pension Funds PFZW 2010–2018	Succeeded byJet Bussemaker
Preceded byUnknown	Chairman of the Executive Board of the Public Libraries association 2010–present	Incumbent
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded byGijs de Vries	Chairman of the Executive Board of the Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy 1978–1980	Succeeded byRobert de Haze Winkelman
Preceded byUnknown	Chairman of the Supervisory board of the Verwey-Jonker Institute 2010–present	Incumbent
Preceded byEduard Klasen	Chairman of the Supervisory board of the Heart Foundation 2019–present	Incumbent

v t e Council of State of the Netherlands
President	King Willem-Alexander
Vice-President	Thom de Graaf
Members	Eric Helder Hanna Sevenster Ben Vermeulen Luc Verhey Jaap Polak
Advisory Members	Sjaak Jansen Luc Verhey Guus Heerma van Voss Ronald van den Tweel Frank de Grave Bert-Jan Houtzagers Kathalijne Buitenweg
Extraordinary Members	Ad Melkert Richard van Zwol Marijke Vos
Ex officio Members	Queen Máxima Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

v t e Ministers of defence of the Netherlands
Ministry of Defence
Schokking s'Jacob Staf Van den Bergh De Quay Visser De Jong Den Toom De Koster Vredeling Stemerdink Kruisinga De Koning Scholten De Geus Van Mierlo De Ruiter Van Eekelen Bukman Bolkestein Ter Beek Pronk Ter Beek Voorhoeve De Grave Korthals Kamp Van Middelkoop Hillen Hennis-Plasschaert Dijkhoff A. Bijleveld Grapperhaus Kamp Ollongren Brekelmans

v t e State secretaries for social affairs of the Netherlands
Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
Van Rhijn Muntendam Roolvink De Meijer Bartels Kruisinga Rietkerk Mertens De Graaf Dales d'Ancona Van Zeil De Graaf Kappeyne van de Coppello Ter Veld Wallage Linschoten De Grave Hoogervorst Verstand Rutte Bijlhout Phoa Van Hoof Aboutaleb Klijnsma De Krom Klijnsma Van Ark Van 't Wout Wiersma Nobel

v t e Mayors of Amsterdam
Geelvinck Kluit Van Iddekinge Boot Van Vollenhoven Fock Den Tex Van Tienhoven Meinesz Van Leeuwen Röell Tellegen De Vlugt Voûte De Boer d'Ailly Van Hall Koets Samkalden Kuipers Polak Heerma Van Thijn De Grave Patijn Ter Horst Cohen Asscher Van der Laan Ollongren Van der Burg Van Aartsen Halsema
denotes Acting Mayor – denotes Ad Interim Mayor – denotes Died in Office

v t e Members of the Senate of the Netherlands (2015–2019)
Senate 9 June 2015 – 11 June 2019
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 13)	Jorritsma Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Bruijn-Wezeman Duthler <De Grave> <Hermans> Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Klip-Martin Knip <Krikke> Schaap Schouwenaar <Swagerman> Van de Ven Wever
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 12)	Brinkman Atsma Van Bijsterveld Flierman <Hoekstra> Van Kesteren Knapen Lokin-Sassen Martens Oomen Van Rij Rombouts De Vries-Leggedoor
Democrats 66 (D66: 10)	Engels Andriessen Backer (Bredenoord) Comenencia <De Graaf> Pijlman Prast Rinnooy Kan <Schaper> Schnabel Stienen Vink
Party for Freedom (PVV: 9)	Faber Aardema <Van Beek> Dercksen Van Dijk Van Hattem Van Kesteren Kok <Kops> <Markuszower> <Popken> Van der Sluijs Van Strien <Van Weerdenburg>
Socialist Party (SP: 9)	Kox Van Apeldoorn Don <Elzinga> Gerkens Köhler Meijer Overbeek Reuten <Ruers> Wezel
Labour Party (PvdA: 8)	Postema <Barth> <Beuving> Fiers Nooren Schrijver Sent Sini Verheijen <Vreeman> Van Zandbrink
GreenLeft (GL: 4)	Strik Binnema Ganzevoort Lindmeijer <Vos>
Christian Union (CU: 3)	Kuiper Bikker Ester
Party for the Animals (PvdD: 2)	Koffeman Teunissen
Reformed Political Party (SGP: 2)	Schalk Van Dijk
50PLUS (50+: 2)	Nagel Baay-Timmerman <Van Rooijen>
Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	Ten Hoeve
Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–2015 See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–2017

v t e Members of the Senate of the Netherlands (2011–2015)
Senate, 7 June 2011 - 8 June 2015
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD: 16)	Hermans Beckers Bröcker Broekers-Knol (President) Bruijn Dupuis Duthler De Graaf De Grave Huijbregts-Schiedon Van Kappen Kneppers-Heynert Knip <Van Rey> Schaap Schouwenaar Swagerman
Labour Party (PvdA: 14)	Barth Beuving Duivesteijn Ter Horst Koning Koole Linthorst <Meurs> <Noten> Postema <Putters> Schrijver Sent Sylvester Vlietstra De Vries <Witteveen> Van Zandbrink
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA: 11)	Brinkman Van Bijsterveld Essers Flierman Franken Hoekstra Van der Linden Lokin-Sassen Martens Terpstra De Vries-Leggedoor
Party for Freedom (PVV: 10)	Faber Van Beek Van Dijk Frijters-Klijnen <De Graaf> <De Graaff> <Klever> Kok Kops Popken Reynaers Sørensen Van Strien
Socialist Party (SP: 8)	Kox Elzinga Gerkens Meijer Quik-Schuijt Reuten Ruers Slagter-Roukema <Smaling> <Vliegenthart>
Democrats 66 (D66: 5)	Van Boxtel Backer Engels De Graaf Scholten
GreenLeft (GL: 5)	Thissen De Boer Ganzevoort Strik Vos
Christian Union (CU: 2)	Kuiper Ester
Reformed Political Party (SGP: 1)	Holdijk
50PLUS (50+: 1)	Nagel
Party for the Animals (PvdD: 1)	Koffeman
Independent Senate Group (OSF: 1)	De Lange
Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the President Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this Senate See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–2012

v t e Second Kok cabinet (1998–2002)
Preceded by: First Kok cabinet Succeeded by: First Balkenende cabinet
Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Ministers	Annemarie Jorritsma (Economic Affairs) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport)
Ministers	Bram Peper (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (1998–2000) Roger van Boxtel (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (Ad interim) Klaas de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (from 2000) Jozias van Aartsen (Foreign Affairs) Gerrit Zalm (Finance) Benk Korthals (Justice) Frank de Grave (Defence) Klaas de Vries (Social Affairs and Employment) (1998–2000) Willem Vermeend (Social Affairs and Employment) (from 2000) Loek Hermans (Education, Culture and Science) Tineke Netelenbos (Transport and Water Management) Haijo Apotheker (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1998–1999) Klaas de Vries (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (Ad interim) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (from 1999) Jan Pronk (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)
Ministers without portfolio	Roger van Boxtel (Integration and Urban Planning) Eveline Herfkens (Development Cooperation)
State Secretaries	Gijs de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Dick Benschop (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) (1998–2000) Wouter Bos (Finance) (from 2000) Job Cohen (Justice) (1998–2001) Ella Kalsbeek (Justice) (from 2001) Gerrit Ybema (Economic Affairs) Henk van Hoof (Defence) Margo Vliegenthart (Health, Welfare and Sport) Hans Hoogervorst (Social Affairs and Employment) Annelies Verstand (Social Affairs and Employment) Karin Adelmund (Education, Culture and Science) Rick van der Ploeg (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport and Water Management) Geke Faber (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) Johan Remkes (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

v t e First Kok cabinet (1994–1998)
Preceded by: Third Lubbers cabinet Succeeded by: Second Kok cabinet
Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)
Deputy Prime Ministers	Hans Dijkstal (Interior) Hans van Mierlo (Foreign Affairs)
Ministers	Gerrit Zalm (Finance) (1994–1996) Hans Wijers (Finance) (Ad interim) Gerrit Zalm (Finance) (1996–1998) Winnie Sorgdrager (Justice) Hans Wijers (Economic Affairs) Joris Voorhoeve (Defence) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport) Ad Melkert (Social Affairs and Employment) Jo Ritzen (Education, Culture and Science) Annemarie Jorritsma (Transport and Water Management) Jozias van Aartsen (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) Margreeth de Boer (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)
Minister without portfolios	Joris Voorhoeve (Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Affairs) Jan Pronk (Development Cooperation)
State Secretaries	Tonny van de Vondervoort (Interior) Jacob Kohnstamm (Interior) Michiel Patijn (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) Elizabeth Schmitz (Justice) Anneke van Dok-van Weele (Economic Affairs) Jan Gmelich Meijling (Defence) Erica Terpstra (Health, Welfare and Sport) Robin Linschoten (Social Affairs and Employment) (1994–1996) Frank de Grave (Social Affairs and Employment) (from 1996) Tineke Netelenbos (Education, Culture and Science) Aad Nuis (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport and Water Management) Dick Tommel (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

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