Rudolf Bekink

Rudolf Bekink (2012)

Rudolf Simon Bekink (born September 30, 1950 in Assen ) is a Dutch diplomat a. D.

Life

Rudolf Bekink was born in Assen in 1950 and studied economics at the University of Groningen by 1974 . In 1976 he started working for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with stays abroad in Greece and Angola. From 1986 to 1989 he was chargé d'affaires in Ghana , from 1989 to 1992 he took over duties in the ministry again and from 1992 to 1997 he was Deputy Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the OECD in Paris . 1997 to 2000 he was chief of protocol in the Foreign Ministry and was a. a. responsible for state visits to the Netherlands.

From 2000 he took over the management of a number of Dutch missions abroad : from 2000 to 2004 in Stockholm , from 2004 to 2008 in Brussels , from 2008 to 2012 in Beijing and from 2012 to 2015 in Washington, DC

Rudolf Bekink is married to the American businesswoman Gabrielle de Kuyper and has three grown sons.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Bekink  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.the-netherlands.org/news/2012/07/bekink-presents-credentials-to-obama.html ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the-netherlands.org, July 30, 2012 (English) Retrieved June 22, 2016.  
2. ^ Rudolf Bekink humanityinaction.org; accessed on June 22, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Dutch ambassador to Sweden from 2000 to 2004
	Dutch ambassador to Belgium from 2004 to 2008	Hannie Pollmann-Zaal
Philip de Heer	Dutch ambassador to China from 2008 to 2012	Aart Jacobi
Renée Jones-Bos	Dutch Ambassador to the United States from 2012 to 2015	Hendrik Jan Jurriaan Schuwer