About Josephine van Zanten
Josephine works as Second Secretary at the Political Department of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in India, where she is responsible for the Embassy’s human rights portfolio among other files. Prior to her posting in Delhi, she was desk officer for Suriname and Guyana at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. Before joining the Dutch diplomatic corps, she served as a Climate and Security Risk Expert with UNDP in Burkina Faso and worked with NGOs in Myanmar. She holds a Master of Social Sciences in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden.