2022 – 2026

Deputy Director of the Protocol and Host Country Affairs Directorate.

2020 – 2022

Consul General in Erbil, with jurisdiction over the Kurdistan Autonomous Region.

2018 – 2020

Deputy Head of Mission / Chargé d’Affaires a.i. in Kabul, Afghanistan.

2014 – 2018

Deputy Head of Mission in Singapore.

Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000 and served in Yemen, Ethiopia, and Angola, as well as at the ministry as a spokesperson.

Education

1987–1992

History, Leiden University