About Jan Mulder

Jan Mulder is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dutch liberal party "VVD" and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR). Since January 2007 he was elected as one of the six Quaestors of the European Parliament. His special areas of interest in parliament are:

• Agriculture and rural development
• Budget
• Budgetary control
• Fisheries
• Development
• Regional policies
• South Asian countries
• Africa

To contact Jan Mulder please call, write or e-mail to the numbers / addresses below. High resolution press photos can also be obtained from this site.


Brussels office
Wiertzstraat 60, B-1047 Brussel
Bureau PHS 8B 006
tel.: +32-2-284 5607
fax: +32-2-284 9607

Strasbourg office
Bureau LOW T 11017
tel: +33-3-8817 5607
fax: +33-3-8817 9607

The Hague office
tel: +31-70-361 3094
fax: +31-70-360 8276

e-mail:

A liberal with special interest in agriculture

Jan Mulder has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dutch liberal party "VVD" since 1994 and is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in Parliament. He was vice-chairman of the Parliament Budget Committee and spokesman for ALDE on the Budget Control Committee. Furthermore he is parliament rapporteur for the 2004 EU budget and a subsitute member of the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries.

He was born on 3 October 1943 in Diever, in the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands, where he still lives. Jan Mulder graduated as an agricultural engineer from Wageningen University and has subsequently worked as an agricultural specialist in developing countries for the FAO, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission. He lived in Kenya from 1970 to 1975. Since 1999 Jan Mulder has been chairman of LUFPIG, the Land Use & Food Policy InterGroup in the European Parliament.