Sybilla Dekker

Sybilla Dekker
Dekker in 2010
Minister of Housing, Spatial
Planning and the Environment
In office
27 May 2003 – 21 September 2006
Prime MinisterJan Peter Balkenende
Preceded byHenk Kamp
Succeeded byKarla Peijs (Ad interim)
Personal details
Born
Sybilla Maria Dekker

(1942-03-23) 23 March 1942 (age 82)
Alkmaar, Netherlands
Political partyPeople's Party for
Freedom and Democracy
Spouses
First husband
(m. 1969; died 1977)
Constant van Gestel
(m. 1983; died 2005)
Domestic partnerBen Bot (since 2007)
Residence(s)The Hague, Netherlands
Alma materUtrecht University
(Bachelor of Business Management)
OccupationPolitician · Civil servant · Businesswoman · Corporate director · Nonprofit director · Trade association executive · Management consultant · Social worker

Sybilla Maria Dekker (born 23 March 1942) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businesswoman. She was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 22 June 2018.[1]

A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), she was minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the second and third Balkenende cabinets. She resigned on 21 September 2006, after the publication of the Dutch Safety Board report about the fire that occurred in 2005 at the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, killing 11 people.[2]

Since 2008, she has been the domestic partner of former Minister of Foreign Affairs Ben Bot.

  1. ^ "Benoeming minister van Staat" (in Dutch). Rijksoverheid. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  2. ^ Dijkman, Marinus; Schiller, A. (March 2005). Europe Real Estate Yearbook 2005. Real Estate Publishers BV. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-90-807761-7-3. Retrieved 26 September 2011.