Professionnal Experience

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  • Vice-President
  • February 2024 until today
• Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the European Union

  • Ambassador
  • 2017 - 2024
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

  • Director-General for European Cooperation
  • 2011 - 2016
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

  • Deputy Director-General for Political Affairs
  • 2008 - 2011
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

  • Director of the Security Policy Department
  • 2005 - 2008
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

  • Head of the Bureau of the Secretary-General
  • 2002 - 2005
• Ministry of General Affairs, The Hague

  • Foreign Policy Advisor to the Dutch Prime Minister
  • 1998 - 2002
• Dutch foreign service

  • Various positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad
  • 1989 - 1998