Tijmen Rooseboom

Ambassador for Youth, Education and Work at the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Tijmen Rooseboom is the Ambassador for Youth, Education and Work at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He works on the ambition of the Netherlands to increasingly put the challenges and opportunities of young people at the heart of its international cooperation, as stipulated in the Youth at Heart strategy and the recently organized Youth at Heart virtual forum. Prior, Mr. Rooseboom worked at the Dutch Development Bank and as the Deputy Ambassador to Somalia; also for the EU NAVFOR mission in Kenya and the UN Peacekeeping Missions in South-Sudan and Ivory Coast