Maria Josefina Theresia Gabriëlle "Marijke" van Beukering-Huijbregts (born 30 December 1971) is a Dutch politician, who has served in the House of Representatives and who has been the Mayor of Nieuwegein since 2023.

[2] She started her career in 1991 as a secretary and archivist at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working successively in The Hague; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; and Brussels.

[11] She returned to the executive board as Alderwoman of People, a position with a portfolio highly similar to her previous one, with as special project "the customer at the center and deregulation".

[12][13] She stepped down on 8 February 2017 simultaneously with her colleague Vincent van den Berg (CDA) because it was revealed that a cooperation between the municipalities IJsselstein and Montfoort had cost €1.5 million more the year before than planned.

Both municipalities had started to merge their civil services in 2014 in order to decrease spending on their bureaucracies, but problems had emerged resulting in a need for an estimated €1.7 million to resolve them.

[17] During the formation of a new executive board, the coalition fell as well, as D66 wanted resigned alderpersons to return, while this was unacceptable to the VVD.

She received 4,971 preferential votes, and her party won nineteen seats – not enough for Van Beukering to be elected to the House of Representatives.

In turn, the three resigning alderpersons declared that the council had become "sour" and was making it impossible for the executive board to govern.

As such, she has served as a project manager at the Netherlands Red Cross (2018), a member of the supervisory board of social work provider Amfors Groep (2019–2020), a clean air coordinator for the region IJmond employed by the municipality Velsen (2019–2020), and a program manager at Breed Spectrum Aanbieders for child protection in Eemland (2019–2020).

[2][4] On 22 January 2020 Van Beukering became a temporary member of the House of Representatives, replacing Rens Raemakers who was on sick leave due to an occupational burnout.

[31] However, MP Sidney Smeets resigned a few weeks after his installation, and Van Beukering filled the vacancy.

[28][33] Van Beukering worked on a bill in early 2022 to increase the say participants have in how money is invested by their pension fund after the Council of State had advised on an earlier draft by D66.

[34] After the Mayor of Nieuwegein – Frans Backhuijs – announced he would not seek a third term, Van Beukering was selected as his successor by the municipal council in April 2023.

[3][35] Van Beukering left the House of Representatives on 1 June, and she was sworn in as Nieuwegein's first female mayor four days later.

[4][41] She has written a first-aid manual together with Nico Schouten called EHBO Leren & Doen ("First aid learning & practicing"), that was published in 2012.