Areas of responsibility Minister of Justice and Security

• Police
• Public Prosecution Service (OM)
• Counterterrorism
• National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV)
• National disaster relief and crisis management
• Resilience in the Netherlands
• Mission critical communications and emergency control centres
• National security
• Cyber security
• Data Protection Authority
• Drug policy
• Community safety partnerships
• Criminal Code
• Firearms, Ammunition and Offensive Weapons Act
• Extradition
• International Criminal Court
• MH17 criminal proceedings
• Prosecutions of ministers and members of parliament for public office offences
• Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI)
• Proscription of associations and financing bans
• Crime that undermines society, prevention and the ‘Italian approach’
• Human trafficking and prostitution
• People smuggling
• Contact with religious organisations

Areas of responsibility Minister of Asylum and Migration

• Asylum procedure
• Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND)
• Family reunification (asylum)
• Resettlement and protection in the region
• Country policy
• Common Procedure Regulation
• Legal assistance
• Dublin Regulation / AMMR
• Eurodac
• Demographics (from asylum migration perspective)
• National security (including Article 1F Refugee Convention)
• Courts and tribunals
• People smuggling
• Public order (revocation of permits)
• VRIS (foreign nationals in the criminal justice system) / foreign nationals in custodial clinics
• Police
• Council for the Judiciary, Legal Aid Council, Council of State
• Royal Military and Border Police
• Asylum Identification and Screening Service
• Dutch Council for Refugees
• Asylum (Temporary Measures) Bill
• Immigration detention
• Custodial Institutions Agency
• Border control (internal border checks, Mobile Security Monitoring Operations, innovative dossiers)
• Schengen and Schengen evaluation
• Visas (incl. Article 25a Visa Code)
• Frontex
• Screening Regulation
• Repatriation and Departure Service (DT&V)
  • Criminalisation of non-cooperation
  • Return Regulation
  • No-fault policy
• Relocation and solidarity under the AMMR / Crisis Regulation
• ETIAS
• EU AI Act
• ECRIS

• 19 June 2025
  Appointed Minister of Asylum and Migration in the Schoof government
• 2 July 2024 
  Appointed Minister of Justice and Security in the Schoof government
• January 2024 – 2 July 2024 
  Assistant Secretary-General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, NATO
• November 2020 – January 2024
  Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO
• August 2016 – November 2020
  Foreign policy and defence adviser, Ministry of General Affairs
• 2014 – 2016
  Director for International Affairs and Operations, Ministry of Defence
• 2012 – 2014 
• Head of Office of the Secretary-General, Ministry of Defence
• 2004 – 2012
  Senior policy officer, Ministry of Defence, in areas including the Dutch mission in Uruzgan (Afghanistan), personnel policy and the budget debate
• 1994 – 2004
  Staff officer, Royal Netherlands Navy

• 1994 – 2004
  Naval officer training, specialising as an operations room officer and navigation officer, Royal Netherlands Naval College
• 1988 – 1994 
  Secondary education, Erasmiaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam