About Dick Schoof
Hendrikus Wilhelmus Maria "Dick" Schoof (born 8 March 1957) is a Dutch politician and civil servant who served as the prime minister of the Netherlands from July 2024 to February 2026, leading the Schoof cabinet. Schoof had a long career in civil service. He was director-general for public order and safety at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from 2003 to 2010, and director-general at the Ministry of Justice and Security from 2010 to 2013. From 2013 to 2018, he worked as National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism and from 2018 to 2020 as director-general of the General Intelligence and Security Service. From 2020 to 2024, he held the position of secretary-general of the Ministry of Justice and Security. Schoof, who is politically unaffiliated, led a coalition government comprising the PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB, notable for being the most right-wing in recent Dutch history. The coalition collapsed in June 2025, after which Schoof remained a caretaker prime minister until February 2026. He was sworn in on 2 July by King Willem-Alexander as part of the Schoof cabinet, and he became the first independent politician to serve as prime minister since Cort van der Linden (1913–1918). The Party for Freedom (PVV) of Geert Wilders won a plurality in the November 2023 general election. Schoof began his career as a policy advisor on education at the Association of Netherlands Municipalities, and became a civil servant at the Ministry of Education and Sciences in 1988. He served as the prime minister of the Netherlands from July 2024 to February 2026, leading the Schoof cabinet.
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