Dirk Van Den Berg

Born on December 18, 1953, Mr. Van den Berg is a graduate of Groningen State University (Netherlands), of the École Nationale d’Administration (Paris), and of the Academie voor Bank en Verzekeringen (Amsterdam).

He began his career as a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Economics (Groningen State University). He joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Netherlands) in 1980 where he was appointed Policy Advisor on macroeconomics before becoming the Head of the Medium Term Bureau of the Macro Economic Policy Directorate and “Director Industrial Policy in the Directorate General for Industry” at the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1987 to 1989. During those two years, he was also Director of the “BOFEB” (Netherlands), a one - year professional training program for young economists, aspiring for government jobs.

In 1989 he was appointed as Deputy Director General for Foreign Economic relations at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Netherlands), in 1992 he was appointed as Deputy Director General for Industry at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and from 1992 to 2001 he was appointed as Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2001 until 2005, he was the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York. From 2005 to 2008, he was Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia, before becoming President of the Executive Board of Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) in 2008.

From 2015 until 2020 he was Chairman Executive Board Sanquin Blood Supply.

Since 2020, Mr. Van den Berg is the President of the Association of Health Insurance Companies in the Netherlands (ZN, Zorgverzekeraars Nederland).