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Johannes Pieter "Jan" Pronk ((:ˈjɑn ˈprɔnk); born 16 March 1940) is a Dutch politician, diplomat, and professor. He has been visiting professor at the United Nations University for Peace in Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica, since 2009. Pronk was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 1965 to 2013, serving three terms as Minister for Development Cooperation and one as Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in government cabinets between 1973 and 2002. He was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission for the United Nations Mission in Sudan from 2004 until 2006. ==Early life== Jan Pronk was born in Scheveningen in the Netherlands on March 16, 1940.〔(Drs. J.P. Pronk ). Retrieved on August 20, 2007.〕 He is the son of Johannes Pronk (1909–2005) and Elisabeth Hendrika van Geel, who were both school teachers at the Protestant elementary school ''Koningin Emmaschool'' in Scheveningen.〔(Bij het Overlijden van Mijn Vader ). Retrieved on August 20, 2007.〕 Jan Pronk attended the ''Koningin Emmaschool'' for three years. He attended the Protestant secondary school ''Zandvliet Lyceum'' in the Hague, where he graduated the gymnasium in 1958 with a curriculum that focused on exact sciences.〔 Jan Pronk continued to study economics at the Nederlandse Economische hogeschool (currently Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics) in Rotterdam, graduating in 1964.〔 As a student, he worked as a guide on the ''Henri Dunant'', the Dutch Red Cross's holiday ship for the disabled.〔(Jan Pronk: Special Representative for the world's conscience ). Retrieved on August 20, 2007.〕 He was a member of the Christian-Historical Youth Organisation, the youth organisation of the conservative Protestant Christian Historical Union party and president of the Protestant fraternity S.S.R.〔 In 1965 Pronk became research-assistant of professor Jan Tinbergen, the future Nobel Prize laureate, at the Centre for Development Planning and later he became associate professor at the Dutch Economic Institute.〔 In this period he also became an active member of the social-democratic PvdA, between 1966 and 1971 he was chairman of the Krimpen aan de Lek-branch of the party. He became active in the development cooperation-movement, serving as chairman of the "X-Y"-movement: an alternative Dutch development cooperation fund.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Pronk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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