News item | 08-07-2022 | 16:52
Richard van Zwol will become chairman of the ‘State Commission Demographic Developments 2050’. A committee appointed by the cabinet to advise them on the challenges that the expected aging and migration will entail in the next thirty years. Mr Van Zwol is the former Secretary-General of various ministries and currently works as a State Councilor in the Advisory Division of the Council of State. The Council of Ministers has approved the appointment of the following members of the State Committee. There is also an open vacancy for a thirteenth member.
The State Commission for Demographic Developments 2050 will start after the summer and aims to deliver the advice by the end of 2023. A government response will follow as soon as possible.
Other members of the committee:
- Monika Sie Dhian Ho, deputy chair and director of Clingendael (Netherlands Institute for International Relations)
- Helga de Valk, deputy chair and director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and professor of Migration and the Life Course at the University of Groningen
- Tamara van Ark, former Minister for Medical Care and former State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment
- Paul Scheffer, professor of European studies at Tilburg University
- Tineke Huizinga, politician of the Christian Union and party leader in the Senate. Also former acting Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and former State Secretary for Transport, Public Works and Water Management
- Marco Pastors, director of the National Program Rotterdam South and former alderman of the Municipality of Rotterdam
- Louise Elffers, professor of Prosperous School Careers in a Diverse City at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), educational researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and director of the Inequality Knowledge Center, a partnership between the Municipality of Amsterdam, the UvA, the Free University, the AUAS and Inholland
- Floris Alkemade, architect and former Government Architect
- Ismintha Waldring, program coordinator and senior lecturer on Identity, Diversity and Inclusion at VU University Amsterdam. Also assistant professor of Sociology at the same university
- Mohammed Essafi, founder and director of PublicEffect with over 20 years of experience as a consultant and interim manager in the public sector
- Daniël van Vuuren, professor of Social Security and Economics at Tilburg University and head of the Work and Security cluster at SEO Economic Research
The government has in mind that the Netherlands also wants to be a country with great, broad-based prosperity in 2050. That is why the State Commission for Demographic Developments 2050 is asked to advise on scenarios, possible policy options and action perspectives of the government, with regard to the social consequences of demographic developments, in particular of aging and migration. The committee focuses on the consequences for the most important policy areas, from urban development to the labor market and care.