Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius[a] (née Yeşilgöz; born 18 June 1977) is a Dutch politician who has served as Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 2023.

He called it his farewell gift to Yeşilgöz that there would be an integrated approach to street intimidation in Amsterdam, based on a proposal she had submitted with Marijke Shashavari of the CDA at the time.

[19] On 25 May 2021, Yesilgöz was appointed State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the demissionary third Rutte cabinet, serving alongside Mona Keijzer.

On 12 July – two days after Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared he would no longer lead the party – Yeşilgöz announced her candidacy to become the next leader of the VVD.

[23] In June 2024, opposition parties filed a censure and a no-confidence motion, neither of which received a majority, against Yeşilgöz, because she had claimed, following the cabinet collapse, that successive family reunifications resulted in thousands of additional asylum seekers per year.

[29][30] In 2022, Yesilgöz delivered the annual Hendrik Jan Schoo lecture entitled "Doing What It Takes to Protect Our Democratic Rule of Law" in which she criticised wokeism, far-right politicians, and conspiracy theorists, and argued that the Dutch constitutional state is allegedly under pressure from left-wing activism.

[33] In contrast to her predecessor Mark Rutte, Yesilgöz said she would not exclude Geert Wilders and the PVV from coalition talks ahead of the 2023 Dutch general election.

[28] Following November 2024 Amsterdam riots targeting supporters of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C., Yeşilgöz stated that religion should not influence public life.

[34] Ahead of the 2025 Spring Memorandum [nl], Yeşilgöz presented a plan to boost the purchasing power of the middle class by lowering the energy tax and raising childcare benefits.

For the longer term, she advocated scrapping benefits and tax credits, to ensure total income increases with hours worked.

The VVD planned to couple social security to inflation rather than the minimum wage, and it proposed a bill requiring that future budgets provide greater purchasing power gains to workers compared to non-workers.