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The nomination of Carola Schouten (46) as the new mayor of Rotterdam, describing her way up to minister and deputy prime minister, and praised for her political insight and social skills. As a teenager, she left for Rotterdam to study Business Administration at Erasmus University . She experienced the still prevalent problems of Rotterdam-West, where she lived in student housing, up close.