Mathias Voges

Mathias Sinclair Voges (Philipsburg, 23 February 1943) is a politician and historian from Sint Maarten, who held the office of Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten from 2010 till 2014. Before this, Voges had been Acting Lieutenant Governor of Sint Maarten. He is also a former president of the board of directors of the University of St. Martin.

Biography Voges was born in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten to Johannes Ricardo Voges and Theresa Winifred Lejuez. The family left for Curaçao when Mathias was still young. In Curaçao, he graduated from Peter Stuyvesant College in 1965, after which he continued his studies in Maastricht, the Netherlands at the Rijkskweekschool. After graduating in 1966, he moved to Aruba, where he did the Lerarenopleiding, from which he graduated in 1975.

Awards and recognitions Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau (1993)