| Jan de Pous | |
| Office: | Chairman of the Social and Economic Council |
| Term Start: | 1 May 1964 |
| Term End: | 1 February 1985 |
| Predecessor: | Gerard Verrijn Stuart |
| Successor: | Theo Quené |
| Office1: | Minister of Economic Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 19 May 1959 |
| Term End1: | 24 July 1963 |
| Primeminister1: | Jan de Quay |
| Predecessor1: | Jelle Zijlstra |
| Successor1: | Koos Andriessen |
| Office2: | Member of the Council of State |
| Term Start2: | 1 December 1958 |
| Term End2: | 19 May 1959 |
| Vicepresident2: | Bram Rutgers |
| Office3: | Member of the Social and Economic Council |
| Term Start3: | 1 August 1963 |
| Term End3: | 1 May 1964 |
| 1Namedata3: | Gerard Verrijn Stuart (1963–1964) |
| Term Start4: | 15 March 1951 |
| Term End4: | 1 December 1958 |
| 1Namedata4: | Frans de Vries (1951–1958) Gerard Verrijn Stuart (1958) |
| Birthname: | Jan Willem de Pous |
| Birth Date: | 1920 1, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Aalsmeer, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | The Hague, Netherlands |
| Party: | Christian Democratic Appeal (from 1980) |
| Otherparty: | Christian Historical Union (until 1980) |
| Children: | 2 daughters and 1 son |
| Alma Mater: | University of Amsterdam (Bachelor of Economics, Master of Economics) Northwestern University (Master of Financial Economics) |
| Occupation: | Politician · Civil servant · Economist · Researcher · Businessman · Corporate director · Nonprofit director · Trade association executive · Editor · Author · Professor |
Jan Willem de Pous (23 January 1920 – 6 January 1996) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Christian Historical Union (CHU) party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist.[1]
De Pous attended the Amsterdams Lyceum from June 1935 until June 1938 and applied at the University of Amsterdam in June 1939 majoring in Economics and obtaining a Bachelor of Economics degree before leaving the University during the German occupation in April 1942 and joined the Dutch resistance against the German occupiers and worked as a journalist for the underground newspaper Trouw from April 1942 until January 1946. Following the end of World War II De Pous returned to the University of Amsterdam in July 1945 and also worked as a researcher before graduating with a Master of Economics degree in July 1947. De Pous applied at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in July 1947 for a postgraduate education and obtained a Master of Financial Economics degree in November 1949. De Pous worked as a trade association executive for the Christian Employers' association (NCW) served as General-Secretary from 1 November 1949 until 1 January 1953 and as an associate professor of Public economics at the University of Amsterdam from 1 January 1953 until 1 December 1958. On 8 October 1958 De Pous was nominated as Member of the Council of State, taking office on 1 December 1958. After the election of 1959 De Pous was appointed as Minister of Economic Affairs in the Cabinet De Quay, taking office on 19 May 1959. In February 1963 De Pous announced that he would not stand for the election of 1963. Following the cabinet formation of 1963 De Pous was not giving a cabinet post in the new cabinet, the Cabinet De Quay was replaced by the Cabinet Marijnen on 24 July 1963.
De Pous remained in active politics, in April 1964 De Pous was nominated as Chairman of the Social and Economic Council (SER), serving from 1 May 1964 until 1 February 1985. De Pous also became active in the private sector and public sector and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards (Overloon War Museum, Institute for Multiparty Democracy, ProDemos and the International Institute of Social History) and served on several state commissions and councils on behalf of the government (Cals-Donner Commission, Mijnraad, Raad voor Cultuur and Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP).
| Honours | ||||
| Ribbon bar | Honour | Country | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion | Netherlands | 27 July 1963 | ||
| Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau | Netherlands | 1 February 1985 | Elevated from Commander (30 April 1974) | |
| Honorary degrees | ||||
| University | Field | Country | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tilburg University | Economics | Netherlands | 24 November 1977 | |