Hendrik Jan Jurriaan Schuwer

Hendrik Jan Jurriaan (Henne) Schuwer (born 3 May 1953) is a Dutch career diplomat who served as the ambassador to Belgium and to the United States.

[3] That year, he joined the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was first stationed at the embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1979.

Schuwer was then posted in Brussels, Belgium, as the first secretary of the Dutch permanent representation to the European Union.

He then returned to Brussels in 2002 as the deputy permanent representative of the Netherlands to the European Union, and then as the director of the private office of the NATO Secretary General in 2007.

He spent the year of 2009 in The Hague as the director of the Dutch Foreign Ministry's North Africa and Middle East department.