Judith TielenMinister for Youth, Prevention and Sport
Born on 2 April 1972 in Arnhem, married, 3 children
Party: People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
Getting ahead in life is conditional on growing up in good health – physically, mentally and socially. This is why I will be working – together with many others – on targeted prevention, more opportunities for sport and exercise, and improvements in youth care.
Medical ethical issues
War victims and commemoration of Second World War
Caribbean Netherlands (domain of health, welfare and sport)
Youth care
Prevention (including vaccinations, population screening) and health promotion
Drug prevention
Sport
Mental healthcare
COVID-19 and coordination of COVID-19 policy accountability process within the ministry and central government wide
Municipal health services (implementation of national vaccination programme, youth healthcare and sexual health)
Suicide prevention
Sustainable healthcare system
Health protection: food and consumer product safety, and monitoring of this by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA)
19 June 2025
Appointed Minister for Youth, Prevention and Sport in the Schoof government
31 October 2017 – 19 June 2025
Member of the House of Representatives for the VVD, responsible for healthcare; deputy chair of parliamentary commission of inquiry on gas extraction operations in Groningen (25 May 2021 – 20 April 2023)
April 2014 – October 2017
Owner, Judith Tielen Strategie- en marketingadvies B.V.
March 2014 – October 2017
Member of the VVD group in Utrecht municipal council
October 2013 – 2016
Lecturer/researcher at the Market Research, Marketing and Innovation Department, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (healthcare branding project planner)
2005 – 2007
Director of health insurance complaints and disputes body SGKZ
2004 – 2016
Partner/strategic marketing consultant, Business Openers
