In this episode, Siri and I co-host a conversation with Arjen van den Berg. Arjen was a member of Siri’s cohort at the Fletcher School’s Global Master of Arts Programme (GMAP). Arjen has had a distinguished career with the Dutch Foreign Service. He has served tours in the US, Trinidad and Tobago and The Hague. Over the last 10 years, he has focused on Asia, working in Beijing, Tokyo and is now the Dutch Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau, where he is half way through a 4-year posting. One of the fun things about having Arjen in our class is that as a working diplomat, he was able to give us a reality check on all of our theoretical discussions on policy and negotiations.
Recorded on 14 March 2022.
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