Secretary General of NATO
Several prominent people who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs are: Dirk Stikker (3rd Secretary General of NATO), Johan Beyen (Founding Father of the European Union), Joseph Luns (5th Secretary General of NATO), Max van der Stoel (prominent human rights activist and the 1st High Commissioner on National Minorities of the OSCE), Hans van den Broek (European Commissioner), Pieter Kooijmans (prominent jurist and Judge of the International Court of Justice), Hans van Mierlo (co-founder of the Democrats 66), Jozias van Aartsen (Liberal Leader), Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (11th Secretary General of NATO), Maxime Verhagen (Christian-Democratic Leader) and Frans Timmermans (European Commissioner) including multiple (future) Prime Ministers: Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Floris Adriaan van Hall, Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg, Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Joan Röell, Pieter Cort van der Linden, Hendrikus Colijn and Dries van Agt.