Nationality Dutch Party Forum for Democracy | Political party Forum for Democracy | |
Occupation Politician, Author, Columnist, Historian, Jurist Books The Significance of Borders: Why Representative Government and the Rule of Law Require Nation States Similar Profiles | ||
Thierry Henri Philippe Baudet (born 28 January 1983 in Heemstede) is a Dutch politician, academic and journalist who founded and leads the political party Forum for Democracy (FvD, Dutch: Forum voor Democratie).
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Known for his euroscepticism and opposition to multiculturalism, Baudet is an outspoken advocate for a return to nation states. His Forum for Democracy was also one of the three organisations that set up the Dutch Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement referendum, 2016, in which Baudet voted no.
Baudet maintains that his conservative political convictions have been largely influenced by two events in his first year as an history undergraduate in Amsterdam: the September 11 attacks and the assassination of Pim Fortuyn.
Baudet features regularly in both print and visual media in Europe. As a journalist he has had a permanent column in NRC Handelsblad, and is published in Le Monde, PressEurope and European Ideas. Recently he has been active as a commentator in Studio PowNed on the Dutch public television.
As an academic teacher and researcher Baudet focuses on questions of law, history and political philosophy through a multidisciplinary approach..
He calls himself the most important intellectual of his generation in the Netherlands in articles he wrote himself.
In the Dutch general election in March 2017 he won a seat in the Tweede Kamer.