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The Embassy team is delighted to welcome Dutch Ambassador-designate to Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, Mr. Matthijs van Eeuwen. 🇳🇱🤝 Ambassador van Eeuwen (Matthijs) joins us after just under 4 years as Deputy Head of Mission at the Dutch Embassy in Ivory Coast, and 4 years as Head of the Economic Department at the Dutch Embassy in Tanzania. With a background in EU law and vast experience in diplomacy and international economic cooperation especially in Africa, Matthijs is a trade policy expert with a demonstrated ability to identify opportunities and build international partnerships. We welcome this critical expertise given our focus on growing sustainable and inclusive trade ties with the Netherlands. Matthijs is an avid reader and passionate about languages. He has already started his Shona lessons to complement his Dutch, English, Spanish, French, Swahili, and Arabic skills! 🗣️ And this is not his first time in Zimbabwe. Matthijs completed a short assignment to the Embassy in 2016 as a Senior Policy Officer in the Sub-Saharan African Department. He is delighted to return a decade on, a bit older and wiser, and this time with his wife and three kids. A warm welcome to Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, Zambia 🇿🇲 and Malawi 🇲🇼, Ambassador van Eeuwen, and family!