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Halbe Zijlstra

Politician

Halbe Zijlstra is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Halbe Zijlstra · Халбе Зейлстра · Халбе Зіелстра · Халбэ Зейлстра · האלבה זיילסטרה · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Галбе Зейлстра · Зейлстра, Халбе · Халбе Зіелстра · Халбэ Зейлстра · האלבה זיילסטרה · 3 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1969-01-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Oosterwolde				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Netherlands				[sources]
Country	Netherlands				[sources]
Citizenship	Netherlands				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Halbe				[sources]
Last name	Zijlstra				[sources]
Political association	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy				[sources]
Website	twitter.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1375236				[sources]
Position	Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017-2018) · State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science (2010-2012) · Tweede Kamer (member, 2012-2017) · Tweede Kamer (member, 2017-2017) · member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2006-2010) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen · University of Groningen				[sources]
Ethnicity	Frisians				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Dutch politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Ingrid de Bondt Politician	spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Foreign Affairs	2017-10-26	2018-02-13

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,260

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,380

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,196

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,392

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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