Tessa Mook

Background

Tessa Mook was born in 1961. The decades that followed were a period of rapid economic growth and social change across much of Western Europe, the setting in which her later university education and legal training took place.

Education

Mook's documented university education took place at Leyden University, an older spelling of the name Leiden, and is dated to 1985. Leiden University was founded on 8 February 1575 by William of Orange and is the oldest university in the Netherlands.

The university was established during the Eighty Years' War, when the northern provinces rose against Spanish rule. It was founded in recognition of the city's resistance to the Spanish siege, and it was intended to give the northern Netherlands an institution that could educate its citizens in religion and supply the government with educated men in many fields. Its motto, Praesidium Libertatis, meaning bastion of freedom, reflects that origin.

Career

Mook's documented professional career centers on her work as a partner at Resident Associates. She was admitted to the bar in the Netherlands in 1987, which marked her entry into the Dutch legal profession and the basis of her later work as a lawyer.

As a lawyer in the Netherlands, she practices within a legal system in which admission to the bar is a formal professional qualification, and partnership reflects a senior position within a firm.

References

• Martindale-Hubbell Legal directory that includes a professional profile of Mook as a lawyer.