The ambassador
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Vietnam is Kees van Baar.
Since the summer of 2022 Kees van Baar is the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Vietnam
From September 2018 until the summer of 2022 he served as the Netherlands Representative to the Palestinian Territories. From August 2014 until August 2018 he served as the Human Rights Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Before that, he was the first Netherlands Ambassador to South Sudan.
During his diplomatic career, he also served at the Netherlands embassies in Lusaka, Moscow, Jakarta and Nairobi and at the ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague where he worked on a range of issues like security, arms control, human rights, environment, fragile states, peace keeping and building, reconstruction and development.
From 2009 to 2011 Kees van Baar was the Country Director Kenya for the PharmAccess Foundation, a Dutch organization that works on affordable access to quality healthcare in Africa.
His educational background is in History, International Relations and Development Economics.