Paul Schnabel

Paul Schnabel
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 (1948-07-17) 17 July 1948
Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
Political partyDemocrats 66
OccupationSociologist

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.