Marten van den Berg is the Director-General Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature as of January 1st, 2024. Mr. van den Berg was previously the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to India, Nepal and Bhutan. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador, he served as the Director General, Foreign Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands, from 2015 to 2018.
His first entry into public life was as the Senior Policy Advisor of General Technology Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs. His subsequent posts included Deputy Chairman of the Working Group Technology Transfer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Adjunct Secretary General at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of Spatial Economic Policy. In 2001, he was appointed Economic Minister at the Netherlands Embassy in Washington and returned to the Ministry of Economic Affairs as Deputy Director General of Foreign Economic Relations in 2004. In 2008 he was also appointed as the Director of Economic Diplomacy at the Ministry. In 2012, Marten van den Berg was appointed as the Deputy Director General of Foreign Economic Relations and then as the Director General of Foreign Economic Relations in 2015.
Marten van den Berg studied Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and was part of the Programme for Public Management at the University of Maryland in the United States and the Programme for Senior Executives of State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
