Born on 4 August 1976 in Rotterdam, married, 3 children
Party: People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
Everyone in the Netherlands should feel free and safe, in a resilient society that is firmly grounded in the rule of law. I’m committed to working on that every day.
- Police
- Public Prosecution Service (OM)
- Counterterrorism
- National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV)
- Cyber security
- National disaster relief and crisis management
- Resilience in the Netherlands
- Mission critical communications and emergency control centres
- Reform of emergency powers legislation
- Disasters and Serious Accidents (Compensation) Act
- National security
- Netherlands Nationality Act
- Drug policy
- Sexual offences (legislation, Dealing with Domestic Violence programme, femicide)
- Community safety partnerships
- Criminal Code
- Firearms, Ammunition and Offensive Weapons Act
- Extradition
- International Criminal Court
- MH17
- Prosecutions of ministers and members of parliament for public office offences
- Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI)
- Proscription of associations and financing bans
- Crime that undermines society, prevention and the ‘Italian approach’
- Human trafficking and prostitution
- People smuggling
- Contact with religious organisations
- Fire brigade
- Regional disaster relief and crisis management
- Revision of Safety Regions Act
- 23 February 2026
Appointed Minister of Justice and Security in the Jetten government - 5 September 2025 – 23 February 2026
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Schoof government - 3 June 2025 – 23 February 2026
Minister of Asylum and Migration in the Schoof government; acting Minister of Asylum and Migration in the Schoof government from 3 to 19 June 2025 - 2 July 2024 – 5 September 2025
Minister of Justice and Security in the Schoof government - January 2024 – 2 July 2024
Assistant Secretary-General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, NATO - November 2020 – January 2024
Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO - August 2016 – November 2020
Foreign policy and defence adviser, Ministry of General Affairs - 2014 – 2016
Director for International Affairs and Operations, Ministry of Defence - 2012 – 2014
Head of Office of the Secretary-General, Ministry of Defence - 2004 – 2012
Senior policy officer, Ministry of Defence, in areas including the Dutch mission in Uruzgan (Afghanistan), personnel policy and the budget debate - 1994 – 2004
Staff officer, Royal Netherlands Navy
- 1994 – 2004
Naval officer training, specialising as an operations room officer and navigation officer, Royal Netherlands Naval College - 1988 – 1994
Secondary education, Erasmiaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam