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Marja Verloop

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Marja Verloop
United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
In office
January 17, 2021 – July 4, 2022
PresidentDonald Trump
Joe Biden
Preceded byPete Hoekstra
Succeeded byAleisha Woodward
Personal details
BornNetherlands
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
University of Washington
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Marja D. Verloop is an American career diplomat. She was the Chargé d'Affaires, and thus acting Ambassador, from the United States to the Netherlands.

Early life

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Verloop was born in the Netherlands, but raised and educated in the United States. She earned a B.A. degree from the University of Southern California and a M.A. degree from the University of Washington. She also took post-graduate courses at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.[1]

Career

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Verloop, as chargé d’Affaires and acting U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, 24 March 2021

Verloop joined the U.S. Department of State in 1998 and, since then, has had a number of assignments in Washington D.C. and at overseas Embassies, including positions in New Delhi (in India), Ottawa (in Canada),[2][3] Windhoek (in Namibia), Kuala Lumpur (in Malaysia), and Warsaw (in Poland). In the U.S., she served as a Congressional Fellow, as a desk officer to the European Union, a negotiator in the Office of Global Change, and as the State Department's Director for Innovation. She has also served as Deputy Executive Director for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for forty-five overseas posts and twelve domestic offices.[1][4]

Ambassador to the Netherlands

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Verloop arrived in the Netherlands in June 2019 to serve as Deputy Chief of Mission. She assumed responsibility as chargé d'Affaires for the U.S. Mission in the Netherlands on January 17, 2021.[1]

Personal life

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Verloop is married and has two children.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Chargé d'Affaires Marja Verloop". nl.usembassy.gov. U.S. Embassy and Consulate in the Netherlands. Retrieved 2 May 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Rosenthal, Elisabeth (3 October 2011). "TransCanada Pipeline Foes See U.S. Bias in E-Mails". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  3. ^ Goodman, Amy; Moynihan, Denis (2012). The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope. Haymarket Books. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-60846-231-5. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Interview with Ms Marja Verloop Chargé d'Affaires for the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands – SIB-Groningen". sib-groningen.nl. Retrieved 2 May 2022.