Ambassador Delphine Pronk is a Dutch diplomat serving as the permanent Chair of the Political and Security Committee of the European Union. She took up office in the fall of 2021, as the fourth permanent Chair, but also as the first Deputy Political Director of the European Union External Action Service.
Prior to that, she was the Dutch ambassador to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union. Delphine joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 2001. In her diplomatic career, she held several positions including Head of International Enterprise and Head of Communication on European Affairs. She was seconded to the EU Delegation in Dakar in 2012.
She lived and worked in Costa Rica, Belgium, Senegal and the Netherlands, and took part of her studies in Berkeley, USA. Delphine studied and holds a master’s degree in Public Administration of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.