Casper Gelderblom
Casper Gelderblom PRO/PvdD) has been Alderman the municipality of Heerlen since 2022.
"My name is Casper Gelderblom, born in 1995 and Heerlen resident since 1997. After graduating from Grotius College in 2013, I spent nine years living, studying and working abroad for the most part. From Paris to Addis Ababa, from Oxford to Jerusalem, from Florence to Boston - but the summer and winter vacations I always spent at home in Heerlen. In 2022 I returned (finally!) to Heerlen to become Alderman on behalf of the Partij van de Arbeid, GroenLinks and Partij voor de Dieren. A great honor, for which I am very grateful every day. In 2024 I got an even more honorable position: in that year my girlfriend and I became proud parents of our son.
For me, my role as alderman and my role as a father converge in a single mission: to work hard for a more socially just and sustainable city and world. I am therefore proud to represent both “red” and “green” parties on the Heerlen city council. As far as I’m concerned, the fight for social justice and ecological sustainability are one and the same. In my previous jobs, as a researcher and coordinator of the global campaign “Make Amazon Pay,” I worked to bring those themes together. I am doing the same now as Alderman , Sustainability, Spatial Planning & Animal Welfare; portfolios in which red solidarity and green sustainability are deeply intertwined. This is how I am fully committed to making Heerlen a fair, livable, and sustainable city to live in. With a robust new housing policy, Health we can finally regain control of the living environment in our neighborhoods: we strengthen communities by building mixed-income neighborhoods, put a stop to slumlords, and work toward a healthy distribution of vulnerable groups. I am also fully committed to combating energy poverty. Through our Heerlen Sustainability Initiative, we are helping thousands of Heerlen households properly insulate their homes—starting with those with the tightest budgets and the biggest gaps.
One hundred percent social and sustainable, in other words. That is the policy I want to fight for - together with my fellow administrators, the city council, and as many Heerlen citizens as possible!"
Email Casper:
- Email: c.gelderblom@heerlen.nl
Portfolio
- Public Housing
- Sustainability
- Spatial planning
- Animal welfare
- Member of the Heerlen-Noord Alliance Council
- District Councilor for Heerlen-Zuid
