society (especially combating poverty), the relationship between farming and nature, and reforms for the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which includes the feud over European farm aid. He is very influential in international environmental affairs. He was succeeded by Gerda Verburg on 22 February 2007. Trivia he sat as a member on various supervisory boards throughout his career. Some of these boards include the National Cooperative Council for Agricultural and Horticulture, the board of the Horticultural Auction Association, the DLO Agricultural Economics Research Institute, the Moret, Ernst & Young advisory board, the Nieuw-Beijerland municipal council for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), and the Social and Economic Council. Decorations References External links Official Dr. C.P. (Cees) Veerman Parlement & Politiek 1949 births Living people Agricultural economists Christian Democratic Appeal politicians Christian Historical Union politicians Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology Dutch academic administrators Dutch farmers Dutch corporate directors Dutch members of the Dutch Reformed Church Dutch nonprofit directors Dutch nonprofit executives Dutch public administration scholars Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Social and Economic Council Ministers of Agriculture of the Netherlands Municipal councillors in South Holland Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau People from Korendijk Protestant Church Christians from the Netherlands Academic staff of Tilburg University Wageningen University and Research alumni Academic staff of Wageningen University and Research 20th-century Dutch economists 20th-century Dutch educators 20th-century Dutch politicians 21st-century Dutch businesspeople 21st-century Dutch civil servants 21st-century Dutch economists 21st-century Dutch educators 21st-century Dutch politicians