Teun Struycken (born 1969)

Teun Huib Desiderius Struycken (born 30 October 1969) is a Dutch lawyer and independent politician. He has served as State Secretary for Legal Protection in the Schoof cabinet since July 2024, on behalf of the New Social Contract (NSC) party.

Education and career
Struycken studied law at Leiden University, and he subsequently went to universities in Paris and Oxford. He obtained his PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen. He started working at law firm NautaDutilh in 2002, where his specialties were banking and securities law, and he has written for legal publications.

After the PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB formed the Schoof cabinet, Struycken was sworn in as State Secretary for Legal Protection on 2 July 2024. He was nominated on behalf of NSC, which had been founded the year before by Pieter Omtzigt, but Struycken said he would not become a member of the party.

Personal life
His father was a professor in private international law at Radboud University Nijmegen, and his grandfather, Teun Struycken (1906–1977), served as interior and justice minister in the 1950s and 1960s for the Catholic People's Party (KVP).