Marit Maij

Marit Elisabeth Maij was born on 16 January 1972 in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. She is the daughter of Christian Democratic Appeal politician Hanja Maij-Weggen. During her late teens she was president of LAKS, an association of Dutch pupils. Maij studied political science at the University of Amsterdam, obtained an MBA from the European University, and studied at the Open University of Catalonia. ==Career==

Maij worked as an assistant to the CDA parliamentary group in the European Parliament, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the embassies in Costa Rica and Beijing, and as an advisor to several other Dutch Ministries. House of Representatives As a member of the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) Maij was a member of the House of Representatives between 20 September 2012 and 23 March 2017. European Parliament Maij ran for the European Parliament in June 2024 as the third candidate on the shared GroenLinks–PvdA list. The party won a plurality of eight seats, and Maij was elected. • Committee on Employment and Social Affairs • Delegation to the CARIFORUM–EU Parliamentary Committee • Delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly • Delegation to the Africa–EU Parliamentary Assembly • Committee on Development (substitute) • Committee on Budgetary Control (substitute) • Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (substitute) • Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (substitute) Other functions From 2019 to 2024 Maij worked for non-governmental organisations: in 2019 she became managing director of CNV Internationaal, the international cooperation branch of the Dutch Christian National Trade Union Federation (CNV) and from 2021 until 2024 she was managing director of ActionAid Netherlands. == Electoral history ==