Marja Verloop

Verloop joined the U.S. Department of State in 1998 and, since then, has had a number of assignments in Washington, D.C., and at overseas embassies, including positions in New Delhi (in India), Ottawa (in Canada),^[2][3] Windhoek (in Namibia), Kuala Lumpur (in Malaysia), and Warsaw (in Poland). In the U.S., she served as a Congressional Fellow, as a desk officer to the European Union, a negotiator in the Office of Global Change, and as the State Department's Director for Innovation. She has also served as Deputy Executive Director for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for forty-five overseas posts and twelve domestic offices.^[1][4]

Verloop arrived in the Netherlands in June 2019 to serve as Deputy Chief of Mission. She assumed responsibility as chargé d'affaires on January 17, 2021.^[1]

Verloop is married and has two children.^[1]