Speaker Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Expert, Politician

1 hour

NL

Globalization,
Cultural differences

Cooperation,
Inspire,
Inform

As former Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is one of the most booked speakers within the topic of geopolitics. Everything is about "investing in more balanced international relations," according to Jaap. Want to know more about this? Then put in an application and ask Jaap himself!

Other topics Jaap speaks on are:
- Foreign and Security Policy
- Defense
- Development Cooperation
- International financial economics.
- Security issues

Jaap began his career as a diplomat at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was elected to the Lower House of the States General for the CDA in June 1986 and served on the standing committees for Foreign Affairs, Justice, European Affairs and Defense. He was also a member of the parliamentary assemblies of NATO and the Council of Europe and party leader of the CDA between 1997 and 2001.

Jaap remained active in politics and was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in July 2002. In September 2003, Jaap was appointed 11th Secretary General of NATO, serving from January 2004 to August 2009.

Since then, he has served on the Board of Directors of Air France-KLM as a non-executive director (2011-2020) and was a member (2010-2014) and chairman (2014-2018) of the Supervisory Board of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Jaap retired from active politics at age 61 and became active in the private and public sector, as a director of companies and non-profit organizations. He served on various state committees and councils and as an occasional diplomat and lobbyist for various economic delegations on behalf of the government. Until April 2020, he taught in The Hague at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of his Alma Mater Leiden University on International Relations and the Practice of Diplomacy.

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