New Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Erica Schouten, the new Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Schouten had been serving as Special Envoy for Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague since 2024.  She was Deputy Director-General for Political Affairs at the Ministry from 2022 to 2024, and Director for Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia from 2019 to 2022.  

Ms. Schouten served as Ambassador to Australia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Nauru, based in Canberra, from 2016 to 2019.  From 2012 to 2016, she was the Deputy Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels.  She served as Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Warsaw, Poland from 2010 to 2012.  She also served as First Secretary at the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York from 2002 to 2006.  

Ms. Schouten joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994, after working at the Ministry of Social Affairs from 1990 to 1994.  She has a master degree in political science, international relations from the University of Amsterdam (1989).  She was born in The Hague on 27 November 1963 and is married with a son.

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