Diederik Samsom

Head of Cabinet, EVP Frans Timmerman, European Commission

Diederik Maarten Samsom (10 July 1971) is a Dutch environmentalist and former politician who led the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) from 2012 to 2016. Since November 2019, Diederik Samsom is Head of Cabinet for Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans.

Elected to the House of Representatives between 30 January 2003 and 14 December 2016, he was elected PvdA parliamentary leader as well as party leader on 16 March 2012. Before his election to the House of Representatives, he  was CEO of a green energy company and a campaigner for Greenpeace Netherlands.

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01 September 2021

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 1-3 September 2021

The 2021 Annual Meetings gathered high-level speakers and participants to discuss how to recover from the crises brought on by the Covid pandemic

Masood Ahmed, Carlo Altomonte, José Antonio Álvarez, Nicholas Bloom, Francesca Bria, Per Callesen, Nadia Calviño, Grégory Claeys, Declan Costello, Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis, Alberto De Paoli, Valdis Dombrovskis, Karolina Ekholm, Jeremy Farrar, Henry Foy, Michael Froman, Alicia García-Herrero, Amanda Glassman, Gita Gopinath, Caroline de Gruyter, Pierre Heilbronn, Amadou Hott, Kerstin Jorna, Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Keyu Jin, Tadeusz Kościński, Jean-Bernard Lévy, Mario Mariniello, Sara Matthieu, J. Scott Marcus, Mairead McGuinness, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Niclas Poitiers, Hélène Rey, Aura Salla, Diederik Samsom, André Sapir, Marietje Schaake, Jorge Sicilia Serrano, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Vera Songwe, Lawrence H. Summers, György Szapáry, Simone Tagliapietra, Adam Tooze, Laurence Tubiana, Jutta Urpilainen, Nicolas Véron, Reinhilde Veugelers, Luca Visentini, Guntram B. Wolff, Sabine Weyand and Georg Zachmann

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European Commission