Sigrid Kaag, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sigrid Kaag

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of The Netherlands | UN Diplomat

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1961

Place of Birth: Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: politician, minister, diplomat

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Sigrid Kaag

  • Sigrid Agnes Maria Kaag (born 2 November 1961) is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Democrats 66 (D66) party.
  • She is the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Cabinet Rutte III since 26 October 2017.A diplomat by occupation, Kaag worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1990 until 1993 when she became a United Nations official for the UNRWA in Jerusalem from 1994 until 1997.
  • Kaag worked as a administrator at the International Organization for Migration in Geneva from 1998 until 2004 when she became a senior advisor of the United Nations for Khartoum and Nairobi until 2005 when she became a senior official at UNICEF.
  • Kaag served as Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa for UNICEF in Amman from 2007 until May 2010 when she was appointed Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau of External Relations of the UNDP in New York.
  • and oversaw UNDP’s strategic external engagement, organization-wide communication and advocacy as well as resource mobilization.Previously she was working for the United Nations.
  • From January 2015 until October 2017 she served as the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL).
  • Prior to that she served as Under Secretary-General and Special Coordinator of the United Nations – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (UN-OPCW) Joint Mission to eliminate the declared chemical weapons programme of the Syrian Arab Republic between October 2013 and September 2014.
  • Until her mission in Syria she was employed as Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy of the United Nations Development Programme.

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