Joost
de Vries
Joost de Vries Joost has been working on sanctions in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2018. First in Brussels at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the EU, and for the past years at the Ministry in The Hague. During these years he has been involved in the development of new EU sanctions instruments like the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and the Cyber Sanctions Regime, as well as numerous geographical sanctions regimes as coordinator from The Hague. More recently, he was the coordinator for Russia and Belarus sanctions and has worked on the implementation of sanctions in The Netherlands, as part of the team of the National Sanctions Coordinator. Right now, he is part of the MFA’s sanctions unit, which was established last summer as part of an increase in the Dutch capacity on sanctions, focusing on more horizontal and strategic sanctions issues.