Karin Straus
Karin Cornelia Josepha Straus is a Dutch politician and former human resource management employee and management consultant. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy she was an MP between 26 October 2010 and 23 March 2017. She focused on matters of financial arrangements for children, social and psychiatric care, and drug rehabilitation.
She was a member of the municipal council of Roermond from 1998 to 2003 as well as VVD fraction leader from 2002 to 2003. Since 11 March 2010 she has been again a council member of this Dutch Limburg municipality. In the meantime she was a member of the municipal council as well as VVD fraction leader of the South Holland municipality of Midden-Delfland from 2004 to 2006.
Straus studied public administration at Radboud University Nijmegen and organizational and management studies at VU University Amsterdam. She also studied at Nyenrode Business University.
