Henk van den Dool

Henk van den Dool (born June 4, 1961 in Dordrecht ) is a Dutch diplomat . He has been the Dutch ambassador to Serbia since 2015 .

Life

Henk van den Dool attended a primary school in Beverwijk and from 1973 to 1979 the Felisenum grammar school in Velsen- Zuid. He graduated from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in 1986 in prehistory . After his studies he worked as a journalist for the publisher Sak van den Boom in Bloemendaal .

He has two sons.

Diplomatic career

He has been in the foreign service of the Netherlands since 1987. There he was employed in various positions, for example in the Dutch representation to the European Union in Brussels from 1990 to 1993 (in the rank of second secretary), as an advisor for Ghana and Benin in the Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1996, at the Netherlands Representation to the United Nations in Geneva from 1996 to 1998 (as First Secretary) and at the Embassy in Warsaw from 2002 to 2006 (as Minister-Counselor ).

Between 1998 and 2002 he was the private secretary of the Minister for Economic Cooperation Eveline Herfkens .

His first assignment as ambassador was in Albania : from 2008 to 2012 he was ambassador in Tirana . From 2012 to 2015 he was ambassador to Riga . As the Dutch Ambassador to Latvia , he was also head of the Baltic Mission, which includes the embassies in Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . His successor in Latvia was Pieter Jan Langenberg . Since summer 2015, Henk van den Dool has been the successor to Laurent Stokvis as the Dutch ambassador in Belgrade , co-accredited for Montenegro .

Web links

• CV Henk van den Dools on nederlandwerlewijd.nl (Dutch)