Mei Li Vos

Mei Li Vos
Mei Li Vos
Personal details
Born 31 March 1970
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Political party Labour Party (PvdA)
Occupation Member of the House of Representatives
Religion Presbyterian
Website meilivos.pvda.nl

Mei Li Vos (Eindhoven, 31 March 1970) is a Dutch politician. She previously was a member of the House of Representatives for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA), a trade unionist and an editorialist.

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Youth 1970-1988

Vos comes from a family with five brothers. Her mother was half-Indo-Chinese, established in the Dutch East Indies.[1] During her youth her family lived in a Christian commune in Veldhoven. Between 1982 and 1988 she attended the vwo at the Christian Lyceum in Arnhem.[2]

Academic career 1988-2005

Between 1988 and 1989 she studied General Social Science at the University of Utrecht. Vos studied political science at the University of Amsterdam. Between 1994 and 2002 she worked as teacher and researcher at the political science department of the University of Amsterdam. In 1994-1995 she also worked part time as manager of the Maarten Altena Ensemble. From 1995 and 2000 she worked on her thesis, which concerned the relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia. She specifically researched what the effect was of Indonesia refusing development cooperation of the Netherlands on cooperation in higher education, industry and the legal profession. Her thesis was titled "International cooperation between politics and practice: how Dutch Indonesian cooperation changed remarkably little after a diplomatic rupture".[2]

Since 2000 she also worked part time as a researcher at the think tank Infodrome, where she wrote a study on the information revolution and its effect on society. Based on her work here she published two books on the information society. In 2001 she was promoted there at the Political Science department. Between 2002 and 2004 she worked at United Knowledge, where she advised the government on the information society. Based on her work advising the Ministry of Economic Affairs she published a book on empowerment. Between 2004 and 2005 she worked at the Ministry of General Affairs and the government PR service. As such she coordinated the norms and values cabinet project.[3]

Alternative for Trade Union 2005-2006

In 2005 she was one of the founders of the Alternative for Trade Union (Alternatief voor Vakbond, AVV),[2] a trade union specifically oriented at young people, part time employed, freelancers, with temporary work and people on a flexible contract.[4] The union was founded as an alternative for the FNV, which was, according to AVV-founders too concerned with the interest of elderly workers. In 2005 she became the union's chair. Additionally she got a column with the Vrij Nederland and the De Volkskrant. She also worked for the Ministry of Justice as a researcher on the relationship between migration, integration and the welfare state.[3] In 2006 she published a book "the workers' paradise" on the future of the welfare state, employment and labour.[2]

Political career 2006 - present

In the 2006 elections Vos was placed on place 38 of the list of the PvdA. Both the conservative liberal VVD and the progressive liberal D66 had asked Vos to consider running for them. Because of the PvdA did not perform particularly well in the elections, Vos was not elected immediately. When several MPs became minister in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet Vos did get a seat. Vos is spokesperson on freelancer-, temporarily employed and consumer affairs.[5] She sits in the commissions on finance, European Affairs, Economic Affairs, Social Affairs and the Environment.[6] Vos is also member of the Board of directors of the public radio broadcaster FunX.[2] As an MP she wants to give free lancers and the temporarily employed a voice in parliament and share the risks of a dynamic labour market more equally between free lancers, part time employed and temporarily employed and people with a fixed contract.[6] Vos considers herself to be a social liberal,[7] while the PvdA is a social-democratic party.

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