Bart van den Brink

Gijsbertus "Bart" van den Brink (born 23 October 1978) is a Dutch politician who has served as a member of the House of Representatives for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) since 2025, previously holding a seat in 2023.

Van den Brink was number 22 on the CDA candidate list for the 2021 Dutch general election. He is trained as a public administrator and worked for the municipality of Roermond from 2003 to 2006. Since 2006 he has worked in The Hague, where he first worked as a personal assistant to CDA Member of Parliament Ger Koopmans, and then between 2008 and 2011 as a political advisor to State Secretary and later Minister Marja van Bijsterveldt. After this, he became head of public relations for the CDA House of Representatives faction, a position he remained until he became a political advisor to Minister Hugo de Jonge in 2017. From April 2022 he worked for the CDA in the House of Representatives again, where he was a Member of Parliament from 10 May 2023 , succeeding Agnes Mulder. Van den Brink was campaign leader for the 2023 Dutch general election and stood in seventh place. He retired from the House of Representatives on 5 December 2023. In the 2025 Dutch general election he will again be standing for election for the CDA, where he is in seventh place on the party list.^[1]

Van den Brink lives with his wife and three children in Amersfoort. He attends the PKN church.