Claire Martens

Claire Martens-America (born 19 September 1987) is a Dutch politician from the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy who was elected to the Dutch Parliament in the 2023 Dutch general election.^[1] Martens was a member of Amsterdam city council.^[2]

In the House, her portfolio includes macroeconomic policy, industrial policy, innovation, higher education, and media.^[3] During a debate about the government's education budget in February 2024, Martens successfully added an amendment to the Tertiary Education and Research Act, allowing institutions of higher education to limit foreign students, to the budget bill. The amendment achieved its goal by enabling them to declare an admission stop for the English track of a study program.^[4] She presented a plan in 2024 to reform the Dutch public broadcasting system, for which the Schoof cabinet had planned budget cuts. She proposed that its member-based broadcast associations would be replaced by several "media houses", representing different ideologies. Management and support functions would be consolidated under a single umbrella organization.^[5]