Jet Bussemaker (NL)
Jet Bussemaker actively shapes the political and academic landscape of The Netherlands. Her background is in Political Science, and she holds a professorship at the new academic chair ‘Policy, science and societal impact, in particular in health care’, at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Faculty Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) at Leiden University. Prior to her professorship, Jet Bussemaker was Minister of Education, Culture and Science in The Netherlands (2012-2017). She was a member of the Dutch parliament for the Dutch Labour Party for almost ten years. With her interdisciplinary education, experience and research, Professor Bussemaker works at the intersection between policy and health care, and promotes the application of scientific knowledge in health care and policy practice to increase its impact in society.