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Mr. Dirk Jan Bruinsma was appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD on 1st January 2006. Mr. Bruinsma has served six years as Director-General of Foreign Economic Relations in the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. His responsibilities included trade policy, European economic relations, bilateral economic relations and foreign direct investment. Following a long career in the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the private sector, including managing his own consulting firm and sitting on the managing board of a credit insurance company, Mr. Bruinsma joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 1995 as Deputy Secretary-General. In his various posts at the Ministry of Finance, where he worked from 1976 to 1991, Mr. Bruinsma specialised in transport and public works; industrial policy and energy policy; development cooperation; and defence, agriculture and fisheries. For five years he was responsible for the coordination of macro-economic policies.
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