Uriël "Uri" Rosenthal (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈuːri ˈroːzə(n)taːl]; born 19 July 1945) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and political scientist.

Uri Rosenthal
Rosenthal in 2011
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
14 October 2010 – 5 November 2012
Prime MinisterMark Rutte
Preceded byMaxime Verhagen
Succeeded byFrans Timmermans
Parliamentary leader in the Senate
In office
5 May 2005 – 14 October 2010
Preceded byNicoline van den Broek
Succeeded byFred de Graaf
Parliamentary groupPeople's Party for
Freedom and Democracy
Member of the Senate
In office
8 June 1999 – 14 October 2010
Parliamentary groupPeople's Party for
Freedom and Democracy
Personal details
Born
Uriël Rosenthal

(1945-07-19) 19 July 1945 (age 79)
Montreux, Switzerland
NationalityDutch
Political partyPeople's Party for
Freedom and Democracy

(from 1984)
Spouse
Dinah Epstein
(m. 1973)
Children2 daughters
Residence(s)Rotterdam, Netherlands
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
(Bachelor of Social Science, Master of Social Science)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
(Doctor of Philosophy)
OccupationPolitician · Civil servant · Political scientist · Historian · Academic administrator · Researcher · Management consultant · Nonprofit director · Author · Columnist · Professor

Rosenthal a political scientist by occupation, was elected as a Member of the Senate on 8 June 1999 after the Senate election of 1999. On 5 May 2005 he was selected as the parliamentary leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the Senate. Following the election of 2010 Rosenthal was asked to become Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Rutte–Verhagen Rosenthal accepted and resigned as parliamentary leader in the Senate and a Member of the Senate the same day he took office as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs on 14 October 2010 serving until 5 November 2012.

A professor of political science and public administration by occupation, he taught from 1980 until 2010 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University.

Early life

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Uriël Rosenthal was born on 19 July 1945 in Montreux, Switzerland to Jewish parents who during World War II fled the Netherlands from the German occupation of the Netherlands. They returned to the Netherlands shortly after the war ended. After attending school in The Hague, he went to study political science at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained a Bachelor of Social Science and a Master of Social Science in 1970. In 1978 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in social sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1980 he became a professor of political science and public administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 1987 until 2011 he was a professor of public administration at the Leiden University.

Politics

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He was elected Member of the Senate as a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and took office on 8 June 1999. He became the Parliamentary leader in the Senate on 5 May 2005. On 12 June 2010 Queen Beatrix nominated Rosenthal as first informateur in the 2010 Dutch cabinet formation.[1] On 26 June the Queen replaced Rosenthal with Herman Tjeenk Willink, the Vice President of the Council of State as the new informateur.[2] On 5 July he became informateur a second time together with Jacques Wallage of the Labour Party.[3] But on 21 July the Queen again replaced him and Wallage with Minister of State and former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers.

 
Laura Rosenberger, Uri Rosenthal, Andreas Michaelis, Nanjala Nyabola, Oliver della Costa Stuenkel at Future Affairs in Berlin in 2019

On 28 September 2010 the negotiations were finished. A coalition agreement was reached between People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Christian Democratic Appeal to form a minority coalition, supported by the Party for Freedom to obtain a majority. Formateur Mark Rutte asked Rosenthal as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new cabinet. Because a member of the States-General of the Netherlands can not serve in the cabinet he resigned as a Member of the Senate and Parliamentary leader on 14 October 2010, the same day he took office as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs.[4]

As of 1 March 2013, Rosenthal is chairman of the Policy Advisory Council on Science and Technology (AWT).

He has been nominated by the Dutch Government to serve as the Special Envoy for the fourth International Cyberspace Conference to be held in 2015.[5]

Family

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He has been married since 4 January 1973. He lives in Rotterdam with his wife, Dinah, and their two children. Dinah Rosenthal is an Israeli native, originally from Haifa. Two of Rosenthal's sisters live in Israel.[6][7]

Decorations

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Honours
Ribbon bar Honour Country Date Comment
  Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau Netherlands 10 December 1985

References

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  1. ^ (in Dutch) VVD'er Uri Rosenthal informateur Archived 2012-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, NRC, 12 June 2010
  2. ^ (in English) Queen appoints new coalition negotiator, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 26 June 2010
  3. ^ (in English) Dutch coalition talks continue behind closed doors Archived 2010-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 6 July 2010
  4. ^ (in Dutch) Uri Rosenthal is beoogd minister Buitenlandse Zaken Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, NRC, 8 October 2010
  5. ^ "Netherlands to host international Cyberspace Conference in 2015". Government of the Netherlands. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  6. ^ (in Dutch) D66 en PvdA eisen uitleg over Nederlandse blokkade EU-standpunt Israël, NRC, 29 September 2011
  7. ^ "Uri Rosenthal: from crisis professor to Foreign Minister". Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
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Official
Party political offices
Preceded by Parliamentary leader of the
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
in the Senate

2005–2010
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Foreign Affairs
2010–2012
Succeeded by