Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra is a Dutch politician. He served as second Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the fourth Rutte cabinet between 10 January 2022 and 1 September 2023. He has also been Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) since 2020. Hoekstra previously served as Minister of Finance in the third Rutte cabinet from 2017 to 2022. He is nominated to take on the role of Frans Timmermans as EU Commissioner, being responsible for climate action; a petition has been started against Hoekstra's nomination, however, due to his past work for Shell and his decisions that backed oil explorations in the Netherlands.