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Jelger de Boer
Jelger de Boer has been active in the Groningen Declaration Network since 2016. He was chair of the GDN taskforce on cross border enrollment verification before becoming a director of the board in 2019. He started his tenure as President of the Board of Directors in October 2022.
Jelger has been working for DUO since 2005. DUO is the Dutch executive agency for the department of education and handles government funding of both students and institutions in the Netherlands. He is currently the account manager of the national student database that holds record of every student in the Netherlands from primary education to Higher education. DUO is one of the founders of GDN and very much focused on learner centricity by giving students access to their own data.
Jelger has studied Law at the Hanze university of Applied Science in Groningen, the Netherlands with a specialization in Government Law and policy, graduating in 2015.