Curriculum Vitae

After having obtained her Master’s degree (European Studies) at the University of Amsterdam in 1989, and having finished post-graduate studies of International Relations at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague, Ms. Stella Ronner-Grubačić started her diplomatic career at the Dutch Foreign Ministry in August 1991.

She worked in the Foreign Ministry’s multilateral department, after which she was posted at the Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia. Her following posting in Paris was preceded by a year (‘Cycle International’) at the French ‘Ecole Nationale d’Administration’ in Paris.

In 2001, Ms Ronner-Grubačić was seconded to the OSCE Mission to the FRY (Former Republic of Yugoslavia). Following that, she became Spokesperson to former Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the time when the Netherlands carried out the OSCE Chairmanship. In 2004, she took up the position of Spokesperson for the Dutch EU Presidency. Following various other positions in the Ministry in The Hague, including as Ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals, Ms. Stella Ronner-Grubačić was appointed Ambassador to Croatia in 2010. After having served in The Hague as Director of Communication, she was accredited as Ambassador to Romania and the Republic of Moldova. From Bucharest, she moved to Athens, where she was accredited as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Hellenic Republic in September  2019. 

On 1 July, 2021 Stella Ronner-Grubačić took up the position of EU Ambassador for Gender and Diversity at the European External Action Service (EEAS), based in Brussels. In 2023, she became the Deputy Managing Director for Multilateral Relations, Human Rights and Democracy in the EEAS, a position she held until the summer of 2026. She returned to the Dutch Foreign Ministry to take up the position of Ambassador to Israel in September 2026.