Bio

Ms. Marion van Schaik, Agriculture Counselor at the Netherlands Embassy in India. Before coming to India she was the Agriculture Counselor of the Netherlands for Iran and Iraq and was posted in Tehran. She also served as the Deputy Ambassador of the Netherlands in Democratic Republic Congo between 2018 – 2021. She has been part of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands for over two decades and has worked on sectors like water and environment, women’s health and forestry.

Ms. Van Schaik engineered in Tropical Forestry from Wageningen University and has a Masters in Environmental Public Management from University of Twente.