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Robert Dijksterhuis
Dutch Envoy for Sustainable Building at Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom RelationsRobert Dijksterhuis is the Dutch Envoy for Sustainable Building, a position created in 2020 after the presentation of the European Green Deal, the ambition to make Europe a climate neutral and sustainable continent in 2050.
His focus is on the interaction between the plans of the European Commission on the Green Deal and the Dutch climate policy with regards to the built environment. Previously he was managing the Spatial Policy department at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, where he was among other responsible for urbanization policy, smart cities, finding space for the energy transition and territorial cohesion.
Before joining this ministry he was the director for International Development at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. He started his career in 1991 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he held a number of positions, ranging from urban poverty reduction to promoting international entrepreneurship and business development and to international gender policy.