Mr. Koenders joined the World Bank Group in 2019 as the Special Envoy on Fragility. Currently, he focuses on supporting the World Bank in strengthening its engagement in Fragile States mainly in the Middle-East and Africa regions. Mr. Koenders holds the Kooijmans Chair at the University of...
Hans van den Broek is a Dutch politician. He has served eleven years as the Netherlands' Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1993, when he became European Commissioner for Foreign Relations. He remained in that post until March 1999, retiring from European politics thereafter. Van den...
Marietje Schaake was a serving Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party (D66) with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) political group 2009-2019. Marietje Schaake was the ALDE Coordinator of the International Trade committee (INTA) and the...
The ELN is saddened to hear of the passing of Ruud Lubbers, who was a long-serving and committed member of our network. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family and close friends. Ruud Lubbers was the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs from 1973 to 1977 and became Prime Minister of...
Klaas de Vries is a politician for the Dutch Labour Party PvdA and was member of the Dutch Senate between 2007 and 2015. Previously, De Vries was a member of the Dutch Parliament (in the periods 1973-1988 and 2002-2006), chief executive of the Association of Dutch Municipalities,...
Jakob Gijsbert (Jaap) de Hoop Scheffer is a retired Dutch politician. Following his time as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2003, he served as NATO Secretary General between 2004 and 2009. From 1976 to 1986, he was employed in the Foreign Service of the Ministry of...