Background
VAN VOORST TOT VOORST, Baron Berend J. was born on February 7, 1944 in Beek, Ubbergen. Gelderland.
State Secretary at the Ministry for Defence
VAN VOORST TOT VOORST, Baron Berend J. was born on February 7, 1944 in Beek, Ubbergen. Gelderland.
Law, Nijmegan University, 1968. Political Science, University of Fribourg, 1965.
Employed by the European Integration Department, 1968-1969. Staff member of the Commission of the European Communities, 1969. Member of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1970-1971.
Member of the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the European Communities. 1971-1977; Deputy Director of Bilateral Affairs at the Directorate General for Foreign Economic Relations of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1977-1980, Deputy Director for Foreign Economic Relations, 1985-1988. Deputy Chef de Cabinet to Vice-President fo the Commission of the European Communities, 1981-1985.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1988. State Secretary for Defence, since 1989.