Nora Achahbar
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Nora Achahbar | |
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| State Secretary for Benefits and Customs | |
| In office 2 July 2024 – 15 November 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Dick Schoof |
| Minister | Eelco Heinen |
| Preceded by | Aukje de Vries |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Palmen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nora Achahbar 21 June 1982 Sidi Slimane, Morocco |
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| Party | NSC (2023–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
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Nora Achahbar (Dutch: [ˈnoːraː ˈɑɕaːbɑr];[1][2] born 21 June 1982) is a Dutch jurist, judge and politician of the New Social Contract (NSC) party. She served as State Secretary for Benefits and Customs in the Schoof cabinet between July and November 2024.
Achahbar was born in Sidi Slimane, Morocco. Her father moved to the Netherlands as a guest worker aged 18, working as a cook in The Hague. Achahbar grew up at the edge of its Schilderswijk neighborhood, and she described her childhood in poverty in an interview to Trouw.[3][4] She graduated high school with a VWO diploma and went on to study Dutch law at Leiden University.[3][5] She was an intern for the parliamentary group of Democrats 66 and the Council for the Judiciary, and she subsequently worked as a judge ad hoc in a Haarlem court, a police detective in Leiden, and a lawyer. For ten years, Achahbar served as a public prosecutor in The Hague, where she dealt with cases related to fraud, terrorism, violent crime, and burglary.[3][5][6] Simultaneously, she was a judge ad hoc specialized in administrative and criminal law in the period 2020–2021.[7]
