Khadija Arib

Khadija Arib
خديجة عريب
Arib in 2021
Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office
13 January 2016 (2016-01-13) – 7 April 2021
Acting: 12 December 2015 – 13 January 2016
Preceded byAnouchka van Miltenburg
Succeeded byVera Bergkamp
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1 March 2007 (2007-03-01) – 4 November 2022
Succeeded byJulian Bushoff
In office
19 May 1998 – 30 November 2006
Personal details
Born
Khadija Arib

(1960-10-10) 10 October 1960 (age 64)
Hedami, Morocco[1]
Citizenship
  • Netherlands
  • Morocco
Political partyLabour Party
SpouseNordine Dahhan (divorced)
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam (M.Sc., Sociology)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • civil servant
  • educator
  • social worker

Khadija Arib (Dutch: [xaːˈdiʑaː ʔaːˈrip]; Arabic: خديجة عريب; born 10 October 1960) is a Moroccan-Dutch politician of the Labour Party, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 12 December 2015 to 7 April 2021. In the 2016 Speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives election on 13 January, she was elected to the position, which she had served as Acting Speaker since the resignation of Anouchka van Miltenburg on 12 December 2015. Arib became a member of the House of Representatives following the 1998 Dutch general election and served until 2022, with a brief interruption between 2006 and 2007.

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