Daniëlle Hirsch

Daniëlle Hirsch (born 5 April 1968) is a Dutch economist and politician of GroenLinks, who has been serving in the Dutch House of Representatives since 2023.

Career
Hirsch was born in 1968 in Amstelveen. At the age of 20, while studying economics, she moved to Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, located near Mexico City, with a Mexican friend she had met while working in Israel. In an interview, she told that her one year of experience in the slums transformed her worldview, and de Volkskrant wrote that she had been involved in the fight against economic inequality ever since. Hirsch completed her studies, and she subsequently advised organizations including the United Nations and the World Bank on water management and international economic relations. She served for fifteen years as director of Both Ends, an NGO advocating for the environment and fair labor practices. The organization was among the plaintiffs of Milieudefensie v Royal Dutch Shell, a 2021 case in which the district court of The Hague ordered oil and gas company Shell to reduce its carbon emissions. Hirsch was also on an advisory council of the ABN AMRO Bank starting in 2019.

Hirsch first ran for the House of Representatives in the 2017 general election, appearing 41st on the GroenLinks's party list. She was the 16th candidate four years later but was again not elected. At the time, Hirsch was writing opinion pieces for De Helling, the magazine of the party's think tank. She criticized the government's climate policy and its measures to tackle the nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands. In the 2023 general election, she was the 27th candidate on the shared GroenLinks–PvdA list. Her party received 25 seats, but Hirsch was elected due to her 25,012 preference votes. She was the only candidate elected due to meeting the preference vote threshold in the election cycle. Her specialties in the House are international trade, development cooperation, and international climate policy.

Personal life
Hirsch has one child.