Joanne Doornewaard

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Joanne Doornewaard (born March 30, 1960 in Toronto ) is a Dutch diplomat . She was the Dutch ambassador to Sri Lanka from 2015 to 2018 and has been the ambassador to South Korea since 2019 .

Life

Joanne Doornewaard attended an Atheneum until 1978 and then the Rijks Hogere School voor Tuin- en Landschapsinrichting in Boskoop . After a year at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam , she studied at the Landbouw Universiteit Wageningen . She completed her studies with an engineering degree in landscape architecture .

Diplomatic career

She has been working for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1993 . From 1999 to 2003 she was the first secretary to head the Politics, Press and Culture Department of the Dutch Embassy in Mexico City , and from 2004 to 2008 she was Deputy Head of the Economic Department at the Embassy in Warsaw . At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs she was an advisor for energy policy from 2008 to 2011 and Deputy Head of the Department for Communication from 2011 to 2015 and at that time also acted as press spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2015 she was sent to Colombo as an ambassador to succeed Louis Piët . There she was also accredited for the Maldives . She was there until 2018. Her successor in Sri Lanka was Tanja Gonggrijp . Joanne Doornewaard has succeeded Lody Embrechts as the Dutch ambassador in Seoul since 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edward Mickolus: Terrorism 2013-2015: A Chronology Worldwide. McFarland, Jefferson 2016, ISBN 978-1-4766-6437-8 , p. 200. (books.google.de)
  2. ^ The new Ambassador of Netherlands calls on the Minister of Foreign Affairs . Article dated December 3, 2015 on the Maldives Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
personal data
SURNAME Doornewaard, Joanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto