The calling of my generation - Sigrid Kaag

The book The Calling of My Generation. What Freedom Requires of Us contains the complete and annotated text of the thirteenth HJ Schoo lecture that D66 leader and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigrid Kaag gave on Monday evening, September 6, in De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam.

Sigrid Kaag (1961) has been (outgoing) Minister of Foreign Affairs since May 25, 2021. Previously, she was Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation (from October 26, 2017). She has been party leader of D66 since September 4, 2020. Before Kaag became a minister, she was a diplomat. From October 2013 to September 2014, as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, she led the chemical weapons destruction mission in Syria.

The editors of EW aim to open the political season every year with the HJ Schoo lecture. For example, Klaas Knot, president of De Nederlandsche Bank, spoke in 2020 about the corona crisis and public finances, in 2019 it was the turn of Minister of Finance Wopke Hoekstra (CDA), the German Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier gave the lecture in 2018. , CDA leader Sybrand Buma in 2017 and VVD Minister of Health Edith Schippers in 2016.

EW 's HJ Schoo lecture is named after HJ Schoo, the former editor-in-chief of Elsevier , deputy editor-in-chief of de Volkskrant and publisher of Vrij Nederland and Opzij , who died in 2007 at the age of 61.

This edition has 64 pages.

ISBN: 978 94 634 8099 4