Henk Kamp replaces Sybilla Dekker as CAFT member

DEN HAAG/ORANJESTAD - Former Minister Henk Kamp will replace Sybilla Dekker as member of the college Aruba Financial Supervision on august 1st 2018, and for Curaçao and Sint Maarten and the Cft Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba on the 1st of July. Proposed by the Netherlands, he will succeed the current member Sybilla Dekker. Chairman Raymond Gradus: "Henk Kamp is someone with great managerial experience and a lot of affinity with the Caribbean; with the departure of Sybilla Dekker a gap would arise, which fortunately now is filled up immediately. Given the state of public finances in the countries, which requires a lot of attention, I am delighted with the expertise that Henk brings. "

On May 9, 2018, the Kingdom Council of Ministers approved the appointment of Henk Kamp in the Financial Supervision Colleges. Earlier, the Council of Ministers had already done so with his appointment in the Cft BES. Henk Kamp has a long track record in public administration. For example, before his ministry, he was a municipal councilor, alderman, member of the Provincial Council of Gelderland and a member of the House of Representatives. In the Balkenende I and II / III cabinets, he was respectively Minister for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and for Defense. After that he was again a member of the Lower House and two years Commissioner for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. He then served as Minister of Social Affairs and Employment in the Rutte I cabinet and as Minister of Economic Affairs in the Rutte II cabinet. At the moment he still has various other positions as chairman of the trade association of organizations active in the field of care and support for the elderly, (chronic) sick and youth, and as chairman of the supervisory board at a hospital.

Henk Kamp succeeds his former colleague Sybilla Dekker who has been a member of the Cft for two periods since 2012. Sybilla Dekker was Minister for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Balkenende II / III cabinet. The sitting members of the CAft will say goodbye to her this summer. Raymond Gradus states: "With the departure of Sybilla we say goodbye to a highly valued and committed member; she always had an eye for the Caribbean context and the administrative relationships within which financial supervision must operate. With the other members, I look forward to working with Henk Kamp ".