Paul Schnabel
Paul Schnabel | |
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Schnabel at a 2006 Een Land Een Samenleving event in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk | |
| Senator of the Netherlands | |
| In office 9 June 2015 – 11 June 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 July 1948 Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands |
| Political party | Democrats 66 |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
Paul Schnabel (born 17 July 1948) is a Dutch politician and sociologist who served on the Social and Economic Council (SER) from 2013 to 2015 and in the Senate on behalf of Democrats 66 (D66) from 2015 until 2019.
Schnabel, a professor at Utrecht University, previously served as director of The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, an agency within the Government of the Netherlands, from 1998 to 2013, when he was appointed to the SER by the Crown.
In 2013, upon leading office as SCP director, he was made a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.