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Sjoerd Sjoerdsma

Diplomat · PEP · 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]
Country	Netherlands				[sources]
Citizenship	Netherlands				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	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]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Minister for Foreign Trade & Development Cooperation · Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Aid (2026-) · 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]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-08	Last processed	2026-04-08	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

MP

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

Dutch politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2026-02-26

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	-	-
member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands	2012-09-20	2023-12-05

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,512

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,976

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories342,715

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,191

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

China Sanctions Research256

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

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata330,507

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions502,929

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-netherlands-sjoerd-sjoerdsma-minister-for-foreign-trade-development-cooperation · evpo-e203d11d-d03d-425b-ab66-6f99d0923f7e

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