Jeroen Lenaers
Jeroen Lenaers is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, part of the European People's Party.
Lenaers previously worked as a policy assistant to Ria Oomen-Ruijten, then Member of the European Parliament for the CDA.Early life and education
Lenaers studied European Studies at Maastricht University between 2003 and 2008.Lenaers was second on the CDA candidate list for the 2014 European Parliament election. He was elected through preference votes.
A member of the European People's Party Group, Lenaers first served on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs from 2014 until 2019 before moving to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity, he was the Parliament's rapporteur on legislation creating the European Labour Authority in 2019. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union.
In addition to his committee assignments, Lenaers held the position of vice-chairman of the parliament's delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from 2014 until 2019. Since 2019, he has been part of the delegations for relations with the Mashreq countries and the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.
