Marjolein Faber

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Marjolein Hillegonda Monica Faber-van de Klashorst, born on 16 June 1960 in Amersfoort, is a Dutch politician from the right‑wing PVV. She has two children. Raised in Amersfoort as the daughter of a butcher, she completed secondary education (MAVO/HAVO) and studied nuclear medicine in Utrecht until 1984. She began her career as a nuclear medicine laboratory technician and later worked in information technology as a software engineer and IT specialist.

Faber joined the PVV in 2009. In 2011 she was elected to the Provincial Council of Gelderland and soon after joined the Dutch Senate, where she led the PVV group from 2014 to 2023. She also served as a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly starting in 2017. In November 2023 she was elected to the House of Representatives, where she was the PVV’s spokesperson for criminal law and human trafficking, and she left the Senate and Gelderland Council.

In July 2024, Faber became Minister of Asylum and Migration in the Schoof cabinet, the first person to hold that new ministry. The coalition described its migration policy as the strictest in Dutch history. While discussions about emergency powers occurred, that approach was not adopted. In December 2024 three asylum-related bills were approved: the Asylum Emergency Measures Act, a bill to restore a two-tier asylum system, and the Return and Detention of Aliens Act. She also sought an opt-out from European asylum rules, which the EU did not grant. She halted national funding for shelters for rejected asylum seekers and proposed putting signs at asylum centers to emphasize returns; these ideas faced opposition in Parliament.

Faber is married.