Biography
Sigrid Kaag is a Dutch diplomat and politician, serving as Minister of Finance and First Deputy Prime Minister in the Fourth Rutte cabinet. She previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Third Rutte cabinet.
A diplomat by occupation, minister Kaag has held various positions for several agencies and programmes of the United Nations. Amongst others, she worked for the UNRWA in Jerusalem, the International Organization for Migration in Geneva, UNICEF in Amman, and the UNDP in New York.
From January 2015 until October 2017 Sigrid Kaag was the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL). Prior to that she served as Under Secretary-General and Special Coordinator of the United Nations – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (UN-OPCW) Joint Mission to eliminate the declared chemical weapons programme of the Syrian Arab Republic.