H.E. Kees Jan René Klompenhouwer

After graduating in Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, ambassador Klompenhouwer has had an extensive career in the Dutch diplomatic service. He started out at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hague where he worked on economic and monetary integration after which he was posted to the UN, NATO and EU. As an ambassador, he represented the Netherlands in the former Yugoslavia and Ukraine, before being appointed as ambassador to the Czech Republic.