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Andrée Christine van Es (born 26 January 1953 inThe Hague) is aDutch politician. She is currently chairwoman of the Dutch national UNESCO committee. She was previouslywethouder (alderman) in the executive of the city ofAmsterdam forGreenLeft until 2014. She was member of theHouse of Representatives for thePacifist Socialist Party andGreenLeft.
Van Es became assistant to the PSP parliamentary party in 1975. During the1981 election she was elected to parliament. From 1985 she waschair of the parliamentary party, which after the1986 election was represented only by her. In the1989 election, the PSP combined forces with theCommunist Party of the Netherlands and the progressive ChristianPolitical Party of Radicals and theEvangelical People's Party under the nameGreenLeft. In November 1990, just before GreenLeft was formed as a separate political party, Van Es left politics in order to "make room for new GreenLeft faces" and because she had difficulty combining motherhood and her place in parliament. She was a consciouslysingle mother from 1988. She was replaced as an MP by party memberLeoni Sipkes.
After her political career, Van Es worked for the broadcastersVPRO andNOS. In 1996 she married MPMaarten van Traa, with whom she had had a relationship since 1990. In October 1997, Van Traa died during a car crash. After her journalist work, Van Es led the political-cultural centreDe Balie in Amsterdam and chaired theGGZ-Netherlands, a health organization, between 2002 and 2007. In 2001 she was asked by thecabinet to helpMáxima Zorreguieta, then the future wife ofWillem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, integrate in the Dutch society. Between 2002 and 2004 she was a member of theDijkstal committee, which studied the salaries for politicians and high ranking civil servants. She worked from November 2007 as director-general of Government andKingdom Relations, one of the highest-ranking civil servants within theMinistry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
Since April 2010 she has been a member of the executive of the city of Amsterdam responsible for, amongst others, work & income and diversity & integration.
