Adriaan Harry John "Daan" de Kort (born 15 July 1992) is a Dutch politician of the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
[5][6] De Kort attended the secondary school Sondervick College at havo level and played football at the local club Rood-Wit.
[7][8] He studied public administration at the Avans University of Applied Sciences in 's-Hertogenbosch between 2010 and 2015, and he subsequently did a bachelor's in the same field, graduating in 2018.
[17] De Kort helped form a new governing coalition and left the Veldhoven council to serve as an alderman of economic affairs, education, and sports in the new municipal executive.
[20] De Kort was also part of a working group of the European Blind Union, which investigated how voting could be made more accessible to visually impaired people.
[23] He was the VVD's spokesperson for intergovernmental relations, local governments finances, municipal mergers, government transparency, public sector working conditions, legal status of political officeholders, and nobility – all part of the BZK ministry – and Participation Act, Wajong benefit, Anw benefit, ESF+, reintegration, social affairs and employment in the Caribbean Netherlands, SVB, and developments and support of cooperation of the SUWI chain – all part of the SZW ministry.
His specialties related to the BZK ministry were later in 2021 replaced by accessibility and labor conditions, and poverty was added the following year.
[26] Following the November 2023 general election, De Kort became the VVD's spokesperson on primary and secondary education, poverty, and labor participation.