Career

2022 - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the OSCE

2019-2022 - Director, Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

2017-2019 - Head, Coordination and Quality Control, Department of European Integration

2013-2017 - Deputy Permanent Representative, European Union Delegation to the OSCE

2012-2013 - Spokesperson, Minister of Foreign Affairs

2011-2012 - Spokesperson, State Secretary for European Affairs and Development Cooperation

2008-2011 - Head of Political Section, European Union Delegation to the African Union

2001-2008 - Postings at the Foreign Ministry and the Netherlands Permanent Mission to the OSCE

2000-2001 - Political officer, UN Department of Political Affairs

1996-1998 - Human rights observer, United Nations Field Operation in Rwanda
 

Education

2000 - Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Master in Public Administration

1994 - Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Master in Political Science

Born in 1969, a son and a daughter