Willem Witteveen

Willem Witteveen
Witteveen in January 2014
Member of the Senate
In office 15 January 2013 – 17 July 2014
In office 8 June 1999 – 12 June 2007
Personal details
Born	Willem Johannes Witteveen (1952-05-05)5 May 1952 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died	17 July 2014(2014-07-17) (aged 62) Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, near Hrabove, Ukraine
Cause of death	Aircraft shootdown
Political party	Labour Party (1994–2014)
Spouse	Lidwien Heerkens ​ ​ (m. 1978; died 2014)​
Children	Marit (d. 2014) Freek
Parents	Johan Witteveen Liesbeth de Vries Feijens
Residence(s)	Breda, Netherlands
Alma mater	Leiden University
Occupation	Politician, professor, author

Willem Johannes Witteveen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm joˈɦɑnəs ˈʋɪtəˌveːn]; 5 May 1952 – 17 July 2014) was a Dutch legal scholar, politician, and author. He was a law professor at Tilburg University (1990–2014) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party (1999–2007; 2013–2014). He was also the author of several books about law and politics. Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 when the flight he was travelling on, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down over eastern Ukraine.