Date of Birth: 18 September 1966
Nationality: Dutch

Career
2024 – present Dutch ambassador to Ukraine
2022 – 2024 Director of Intelligence, General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), responsible for intelligence, national security (including cybersecurity) and security clearances
2017 – 2022 Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Department, special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2017 Ambassador at large, special envoy for counterterrorism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2013 – 2017 Master of ceremonies (chief of protocol) to His Majesty the King, Royal Household
2010 – 2013 Head of political section and political coordinator for Security Council issues, Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the United Nations, New York
2007 – 2010 Head of the Horn of Africa and East and West Africa Division, Sub-Saharan Africa Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2003 – 2007 Deputy head of the External Affairs Division, European Integration Department (head of the EU enlargement group; dealing with financial aspects of counterterrorism), Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1999 – 2003 Senior policy officer, Security Policy Department (dealing with ESDP, military operations in Iraq and counterterrorism); Ministry of Foreign Affairs contact for Dutch intelligence services
1997 – 1999 Second secretary, Dutch Embassy in Nairobi (working in Somalia and South Sudan, dealing with conflict, political and humanitarian issues)
1996 – 1997 European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM) in Zagreb and Sarajevo. Chef de cabinet to the head of mission during Dutch Presidency of the EU in 1997
1994 – 1996 Policy officer for Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia, European Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs