Michiel Godfried "Mike" Eman (born 1 September 1961) is an Aruban politician who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Aruba from 2009 to 2017.
Eman is a graduate of the University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA) earning his law degree in 1992 with a thesis entitled "The Position of the Institution of the Public Prosecutor vis à vis the Minister of Justice in a Small Scale Community."
[citation needed] From 1992 to 2001, Eman worked as a deputy civil law notary and co-founded several private commercial ventures and foundations for political studies.
[2] In 2017, he said at the contract signing of the Sunrise Solar Park, "Aruba has proven the world that, although we are limited in size, we can have big dreams and important goals.
Maybe we inherited an arid soil, but we are blessed with an abundance of sun and wind to turn that into energy and well being for our society.