Paulus Wilhelmus Adrianus (Paul) Schellekens (born 1951) is a civil servant and diplomat in the
Netherlands.
Schellekens began his career as assistant legal advisor at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands).
From 1994 to 1998 he was the
consul general in
Toronto,
Canada. From 1998 to 2002, Schellekens was head of the political department and
minister plenipotentiary to the Netherlands embassy in
Beijing,
China
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, and from 2002 to 2006 he served as the Netherlands
ambassador
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to
Peru.
Schellekens became director of the Queen's Office on 1 September 2006. He was preceded by
Felix Rhodius.
On 27 January 2012, it was announced that Paul Schellekens was appointed to the post of Netherlands ambassador to
Dublin in
Ireland. He took up this position in the summer of 2012. Schellekens was succeeded by drs.
Chris Breedveld
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People with the given name
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...
, the former deputy director-general of the
Netherlands Government Information Service.
He is married to Maureen van Rijk.
References
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1951 births
Living people
Dutch civil servants