Renée Jones-Bos has served as the Netherlands’ Ambassador to the United States since Aug. 21, 2008. Jones-Bos attended the Gymnasium, Katwijk de Breul, Zeist (Netherlands) in 1971, the Università Italiana per Stranieri, Perugia (Italy) in 1972, and a licentiate in Russian and English studies and politics and economics from the University of Antwerp (Belgium), in 1976. In 1977, she received a Master of Arts degree in Russian Studies from the University of Sussex (UK), and in 1981, she completed diplomatic training in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

Jones-Bos worked as a freelance interpreter/translator at Interlingua, and then served as assistant to the agricultural counselor for the Netherlands Embassy in Moscow from 1979-1980. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981 and was posted at Dutch embassies in Dhaka and Paramaribo from 1982-1987.

 

From 1987-1990, Jones-Bos was first secretary at the Netherlands Embassy in Washington, DC, before serving as head of recruitment and training at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1990-1994. From 1994-1998, Jones-Bos was deputy chief of mission for the Netherlands Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, and from 1998-2000, she was security council coordinator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

Jones-Bos was ambassador-at-large for human rights in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2000-2003, before becoming Deputy Director-General for Regional Policy and Consular Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2005.

 

She was Director-General for Regional Policy and Consular Affairs from 2005-2008, immediately previous to her appointment to his present position.

 

Jones-Bos speaks Dutch, English, German, French, Russian and some Italian.