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Sjoerd Sjoerdsma

Diplomat · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Sjoerd Sjoerdsma is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Sjoerd Sjoerdsma · Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma · Сьорд Сьордсма · Сьёрд Сьёрдсма · شورد شوردسما · 3 more...				[sources]
Alias	S.W. Sjoerdsma · Sjoerd Sjoerdsma · Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma · Sjoerdsma, S.W. · Сьёрдсма, Сьёрд · 2 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1981-07-10				[sources]
Place of birth	Eindhoven				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Netherlands				[sources]
Country	Netherlands				[sources]
Citizenship	Netherlands				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	s.sjoerdsma@tweedekamer.nl				[sources]
First name	Sjoerd				[sources]
Last name	Sjoerdsma				[sources]
Political association	Democrats 66				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q516335				[sources]
Position	Tweede Kamer (member, 2012-2017) · Tweede Kamer (member, 2017-) · member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (2012-2023)				[sources]
Education	London School of Economics and Political Science (2002-2003) · Utrecht University (1999-2002)				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

MP

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-03-08

Dutch former politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-03-04

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	Ministry of Foreign Affairs		2021-03-22	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Tweede Kamer	2012-09-20	2017-03-23
Member of the Tweede Kamer

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

China Sanctions Research218

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · 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

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

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

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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