Full name:

Mr drs F.H.H. (Frans) Weekers
Divorced, with 3 children
Date of birth: 17 oktober 1967, Weert

Work address:

Binnenhof 1a
Postbus 20018
2500 EA ‘s-Gravenhage

tel: 070-3182894
fax: 070-3182924
e-mail: f.weekers@tweedekamer.nl

Profesional carreer:

2003-present

Member of Parliament (MP), House of representatives of the States General, VVD (liberal party for freedom and democracy), Financial spokesman, President Contactgroup Belgium 
Lawyer/Attorney, admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands, associated with Hoeberechts Advocaten, Law Firm in Weert, The Netherlands
Member of the Benelux Interparliamentary Consultative Council, President of the Justice and Public Order Committee, President of the Dutch delegation 
Member of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (since 2007)

1998-2002

Member of Parliament (MP), House of representatives of the States General, VVD (liberal party)

1994-1998

Lawyer/Attorney, admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands, employed at Hoeberechts Advocaten, Law Firm in Weert, The Netherlands
Areas of experience: commercial litigation, contracting matters, insolvency-law, family-law, penal-law

1993-1994

Legal-Advisor of an insurance-company
Political advisor of an MP

Additional office:

2008-present

Member of the municipal council in Weert

2003-2007

President of the Limburger association of independent entrepreneurs

2002-2009

Member of the Board of Control of the St. Jans Gasthuis

2002-2006

Member of the Board of Control of Stg. Land van Horne (hospital, nursing-homes and elderly-homes organisation)

2005

Selection committee for municipal council VVD Weert

1994-2002

Member of the municipal council in Weert; from 1994 till 2002 chairman of the local liberal party (VVD); member of the committees for general purposes, public security, health-care, finance, local and regional economical development

1998-2002

Member of the region council of Midden-Limburg

1999-2002

Member of the Board of the Cappeyne of Coppelo foundation

1998-present

Consulting member of the general administration VVD KC-Limburg

1994-1998

Consulting member of the VVD-region Weert

1997/2001

Co-draftsman of the electoral programmes of the VVD council

Education:

1981-1987

VWO, i.e. pre-university-education

1987-1992
1990-1993

Financial Economics at the Free University of Amsterdam
Law at the Free University of Amsterdam, graduating as a lawyer in March 1993

1995-1997

Professional education by the Dutch Association of Lawyers (Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten) as a lawyer/attorney admitted to the bar

Languages:

• Dutch
• German
• English
• French

Hobbies

• Field hockey
• Skiing
• Cycling
• Traveling