2024 – 2025 Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC). Commander (OF-4) Military Gender Advisor. Duty station: West Bank – Ramallah
2023 – 2024 Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) Commander (OF-4) Directorate Integral Management & Governance (DIB&B), Bureau of Strategy, Advice and International Military Cooperation. Senior Staff Officer. Den Helder, The Netherlands
2021 – 2023 Netherlands Ministry of Defence, Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN). Commander (OF-4) German-Netherlands Military Mobility Office (DNO). EU External Action Services (EEAS), EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy (EUGS), EU Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) – Military Mobility Project. The Hague, The Netherlands / Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN)
2020 – 2021 NATO Resolute Support Mission. Transition Planner / Staff Officer (P3) Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan. HKIA, Kabul, Afghanistan NATO Resolute Support Mission (NATO RSM) (est. 2015)
2019 – 2019 The Baker Institute for Peace & Conflict Studies / Oller Centre for Peace and International Programs at Juniata College. “Partnering for Peace” Scholar-in-Residence / Academic Fellow (2019 – 2022). Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College (est. 1876)
2014 – 2016 Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM). Monitoring Officer (P4) Donetsk/Kherson Patrol Hub; Deputy/Acting Patrol Hub Leader (P5) Mariupol Patrol Hub. Ukraine OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (est. 2014)
2012 – 2013 UPEACE The Hague / Leiden University The Hague Campus. Lecturer ‘Transforming War Economies’. International Public Management, Safety & Law Programme. The Hague, The Netherlands Leiden University Campus The Hague (est. 1998)
2011 – 2013 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. Senior Policy Advisor (P4) Department for Human Rights, Gender, Good Governance and Humanitarian Aid. The Hague, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kingdom of The Netherlands
2009 – 2010 European External Action Services, Democracy and Election Observation Unit. Project Leader ‘Reform of the EU Election Observers’ Evaluation System (P4). Brussels, Belgium European Union External Action
2003 – 2004 Ole Bull Museum Lysøen – Museum Villa Norwegian Violinist Player and Music Composer Ole Bornemann Bull (1810 – 1880). Educational Specialist (P4). Bergen, Norway KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes
1999 – 2004 Mundial Productions: Developer of Educational Materials (P4) ‘Mundial in the Classroom’. Tilburg, The Netherlands
1997 – 2003 SOM DOBA (Fydes) Educational Consultancy. Psychologist / Counsellor. Tilburg, The Netherlands
1991 – 1991 Provinciale Ziekenhuisraad (National Council of Hospitals, Provincial Branch). Project Assistant (P3). Tilburg, The Netherlands
VISITING LECTURESHIPS (MULTI-ANNUAL)
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU), Batumi, Autonomous Republic of Adjara (Georgia). Guest Lecturer Batumi International Summer University (BSU). 8th BSU (21-24 August 2023) “Nuclear Security and Non-proliferation in Turbulent Times: Vision for the Future”.
Bergen University, Norway. Department of Comparative Politics, SAMPOL601 Course on International Election Observation University of Bergen (UiB) (est. 1946)
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul, Republic of Korea. Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Summer Intensive Programme on Globalisation, Crisis and Recovery Sungkyunkwan University (est. 1398)
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. School for Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Social Psychology Tilburg University (est. 1927)
University of London, Birkbeck College, UK. School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences (ECLS), Undergraduate Course on Cross-Cultural Communication and Public Management University of London, Birckbeck College (BBK) (est. 1823)