Bert Koenders

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Person.png Bert Koenders   IMDB WikidataRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
( politician,  diplomat)
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BornAlbert Gerard Koenders
1958-05-28
 Arnhem,  Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Alma mater •  Free University of Amsterdam
•  University of Amsterdam
•  SAIS Bologna
Member ofEuropean Council on Foreign Relations, European Leadership Network, International Commission on Missing Persons, International Crisis Group
PartyDutch Labour Party
International Crisis Group, International Commission on Missing Persons, UN Secretary-General' Special Representative in Ivory Coast from 2011 to 2013, founded the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank/International Monetary Fund, President of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly and leader of its Socialist Group, member of the parliamentary hearing committee on the "Srebrenica massacre", Private secretary of Hans van den Broek, tried to memory hole 2015 Hawija bombing with Mark Rutte & Jeanine Hennis.

Employment.png Netherlands/Minister of Foreign Affairs

In office
17 October 2014 - 26 October 2017

Employment.png Netherlands/Minister/Development Cooperation

In office
22 February 2007 - 23 February 2010
Succeeded byMaxime Verhagen

Employment.png President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

In office
17 November 2006 - 19 February 2007

Albert Gerard Koenders is a Dutch politician who attended the 2004 Bilderberg meeting.

Background

Albert Gerard Koenders was born on 28 May 1958 in Arnhem in Gelderland,[1] where he grew up in a Reformed environment.[2] He was a boy scout.[2][1]

Koenders is not married.[3]

Education

Koenders studied political science at the Free University of Amsterdam, graduating in 1978 and international relations and economics at the University of Amsterdam, graduating in 1983.[4] He received his Master of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied at the School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and Washington from 1979 to 1981.[5]

Career

Koenders was adjunct professor at Webster University in Leiden from 1987 to 1993. In 2002 he was visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna[1].

From 1983 to 1993, Koenders worked as an aide for the Labour Party in the House of Representatives. He was an adviser to the United Nations Operation in Mozambique in the early 1990s, his first job outside the Netherlands. Between 1995 and 1997, he worked in the private office of Hans van den Broek, who was then the Dutch European commissioner and had shared responsibility for foreign policy. During that time, one of his tasks was defining the EU’s competences on foreign policy.

In 1997, he filled the vacant seat after member of parliament Maarten van Traa died in a car accident.[6] He was member of the permanent parliamentary committees on foreign affairs and on defense. From 2002 until 2003 he was a member of the parliamentary hearing committee on the "Srebrenica massacre". From 17 November 2006 to 19 February 2007 he was president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[1]

Koenders was minister without portfolio for Development Cooperation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet sworn in on 22 February 2007.[7]

Between 2008 and 2009, Koenders was part of a High-Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, chaired by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and World Bank president Robert Zoellick.[8]

Between 2011 and 2013, he was the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Operation in the Ivory Coast.

Between 2013 and 2014, he was the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.[9]

On 17 October 2014, Koenders succeeded Frans Timmermans as Minister of Foreign Affairs.[10] Tasks included the propaganda around MH-17[11] and the Dutch contribution to the 2011 regime change in Syria.[12]

After politics

Koenders has been professor of "peace, law and security" at Leiden University and the Hague Campus since September 2019 and since 2019 Special Envoy of the World Bank for fragility. Since January 2022, he has been chairman of the Advisory Council on International issues (AIV). In addition, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group (ICG) and a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).[13][14]

He is also chairman of the Foundation Max van der Stoel (FMS).[15]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20043 June 20046 June 2004Italy
Stresa		The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Munich Security Conference/20156 February 20158 February 2015Germany
Munich
Bavaria		"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/201612 February 201614 February 2016Germany
Munich
Bavaria		The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201717 February 201719 February 2017Germany
Munich
Bavaria		The 53rd Munich Security Conference
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References

  1. ↑ a b c d http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/02611
  2. ↑ a b http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/bevlogen-padvinder-die-bui-ziet-hangen~a930930/
  3. ↑ https://www.government.nl/government/contents/members-of-cabinet/bert-koenders/cv
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075157/http://unctad.org/sections/press/docs/press_bio_koenders_en.pdf
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070107000258/http://pvda.nl/renderer.do/menuId/37348/clearState/true/sf/37348/returnPage/37348/itemId/7802/realItemId/7802/pageId/37217/instanceId/37464/
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070705053524/http://www.novatv.nl/index.cfm?ln=nl&fuseaction=artikelen.details&achtergrond_id=1184
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070310225130/http://www.minbuza.nl/en/ministry%2Cministers/Minister-Koenders.html
  8. ↑ More money for health, and more health for the money World Health Organization, 2009.
  9. ↑ http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/library/2013/10/T1381945137.html
  10. ↑ http://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/koenders-internationale-conflicten-prioriteit~a3770986/
  11. ↑ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/dutch-foreign-minister-koenders-on-mh17-investigation-australian-trade-and-nexit/2aiu6uqls
  12. ↑ https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/09/dutch-funded-jihadist-group-in-syria-terror-trial-may-now-falter/
  13. ↑ https://www.adviesraadinternationalevraagstukken.nl/actueel/nieuws/2021/12/10/bert-koenders-nieuwe-voorzitter-adviesraad-internationale-vraagstukken
  14. ↑ https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/onderzoek/onderzoeksprojecten/governance-and-global-affairs/war-peace-and-justice#
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220625134922/https://www.foundationmaxvanderstoel.nl/nieuws/nieuws_item/t/bert_koenders_de_nieuwe_voorzitter_van_de_fms
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