Pascalle Grotenhuis

Pascalle Grotenhuis is Vice Minister for International Cooperation in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs since June 2023. Between October 2020 and June 2023 she was the Director for Social Development and Ambassador for Women’s rights and Gender Equality. Before that she was Director of Protocol and Host Country Affairs. From 2015- until 2018 Pascalle was the Netherlands Ambassador to Mozambique. Before that she was heading the division for the Private Sector and Corporate Social Responsibility within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. She joined the Ministry 20 years ago and held various positions, amongst others at the Africa department, a secondment to the Africa Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in London, as private secretary to the DG for International Development and as coordinator for the MDGs and Public Private Partnerships. Before that she worked at a political institute and for two Dutch NGO’s.