Higher Executive Officer, Defence Attaché's Office

• Jan 2021 - Present

▪ Policy Officer and Assistant to the Norwegian Defence Attaché, covering both the Netherlands and Denmark. ▪ Writing diplomatic cables on main thematic focus areas: Dutch and Danish defence & security policy, Nordic defence policy, materiel/procurements, Dutch cyber policy, Dutch Ukraine policy. ▪ Administrative tasks such as accounting, coordinating and supporting visits and calendar management. ▪ Serving as the Embassy’s sole LAN support technician & IT-incident responder (until Feb 2022) - responsible for troubleshooting networking problems and carrying out hardware upgrades. ▪ Briefing visiting ministers on relevant policy issues. ▪ Event Management: secretarial support and communication adviser for Defence Attaché Association (DAA) in 2022 & 2023. Helped organise DAA Gala Dinners 2022 & 2023. Guests included Dutch military leadership and defence industry partners.▪ Developed Incident Management Plan for embassy 2022-23. Show less

Political Adviser

• Jan 2017 - Dec 2020

▪ Writing diplomatic cables on Dutch politics and foreign policy (from early 2019, also security policy). ▪ Lead responsibility for training and supervising interns attached to political section.▪ Primary responsibility, together with the Ambassador, for reporting and completing assignements from capital during initial months of COVID-pandemic, while other diplomatic staff were unavailable.▪ From early 2020, regular political reporting on Luxembourg using French language sources. ▪ Presentations on Embassy research. ▪ Organising meetings between visiting line ministries and Dutch counterparts.▪ Translation of official government documents from Dutch into English. ▪ LAN support technician & IT-incident responder Show less

Freelance academic translator

• Nov 2016 - Feb 2017

Trainee

• Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Practical training in all departments, including accounting, finance and chartering. In operations department, liaising with ship brokers and ship management. Practical training in all departments, including accounting, finance and chartering. In operations department, liaising with ship brokers and ship management.

Norwegian, English and Russian Speaking Conference Organiser

• Mar 2016 - Aug 2016