Jan Mulder (born on 3 October 1943 in Diever) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a member party of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets and its Committee on Budgetary Control.
On 16 January 2007 he was elected one of the six quaestors of the European Parliament.
He was a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries. During the 2009 European Parliament elections, he was not re-elected but in May 2010 he replaced Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert who was elected in the Dutch parliament. Jan Mulder is in favour of the European cause, he supported the Spinelli Group manifesto.
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Johan "Jan" Mulder (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːɦɑn jɑn ˈmʏldər]; born 4 May 1945) is a Dutch former footballer, writer, columnist, and TV personality.
Johan Mulder is born on 4 May 1945 in Bellingwolde in the Netherlands.
Mulder was a football striker and played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and AFC Ajax. He also played five matches for the Netherlands, scoring once. Mulder was topscorer of the 1966–67 season in the Belgian Eerste Klasse. His son Youri also grew up to become a football player, spending most of his career in the German Bundesliga at FC Schalke 04 until he retired in 2002.
After his football career had ended, Mulder became a well-known writer, columnist and television-personality in the Netherlands, making his debut analysing a match of the Dutch national football team broadcast by TV channel RTL4 in 1996. From that point onwards he would frequently guest star in the RTL4 shows by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp, who presented both football-related programmes as well as talkshows concerning more political and social/public subjects. After having been a daily guest-star on the show 'Villa BvD', a football show during the 1998 World Cup in France (also hosted by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp), Mulder made more and more TV appearances until finally becoming daily guest-star on the late-night talkshow 'Barend & Van Dorp' since March 1999, until the show stopped in April 2006.
Jan Mulder (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn ˈmʏldər]; born 1963 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch-born pianist, composer and conductor, who lives in Orlando, Florida. He performs in the United States and in Western and Central Europe. Since immigrating to the United States on July 7, 2007, he focuses on large concerts whereby he performs on the piano and conducts an orchestra simultaneously.
Mulder was born in Rotterdam, he studied piano, organ and composition at the Rotterdam and Utrecht conservatories. Since graduating in 1992, Jan Mulder composes music for his solo albums and concerts. His piano solo albums, recorded with symphony orchestras in London and Moscow, have been played on Classic FM and other stations.
In 2012, Jan Mulder hosted the 37th ICVM International Crown Awards Ceremony in Orlando, Florida. In 2013, he recorded his second album with the London Symphony Orchestra Love Divine, which reached platinum status 10 weeks from its release date. That same album was nominated for the 2014 GMA Dove Awards: Best Instrumental Album of the Year. His 2014 album with the London Symphony Orchestra, named "Christmas", features Andrea Bocelli singing A choir of a thousand angels. In 2015, the latest album entitled Love Divine II was released, again featuring the world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra.