Brigadegeneral Gino van der Voet

Director Training and Operations of the Royal Netherlands Army, Co-Chairman of the German-Netherlands Army Streering Group
  • Brigadier General Van der Voet began his military career at the Royal Military Academy Breda in 1983, where he qualified as an Engineer Corps officer. After serving several positions in the Netherlands and Germany he was transferred to Wezep in 1992 where he served as Deputy Commander of 105 Ribbon Bridge Company. In that capacity, he commanded the Army units that were operating in boats during the floods of December 1993 in the provinces of Limburg and Gelderland. In 1994, he was deployed to the former Yugoslavia, where he was responsible for the management and maintenance of all infrastructure of the Transport Battalion.
  • From mid-1996 to 1997, Van der Voet attended the army’s Advanced Military Studies course and subsequently he took up a position at the Directorate of Materiel, as Military Assistant to the Deputy Director for Materiel. In 1998, he moved to the Personal Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Netherlands Army, where he held two consecutive positions: Military Assistant to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Executive Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. In 2000, Van der Voet attended a course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the United Kingdom.
  • He became an instructor at the Netherlands Defence College in 2001, teaching tactics, intelligence and command and control. In 2003, he was Head of Operations in Oirschot and in late 2005 he became commander of the newly formed 41 Armoured Engineer Battalion at the same location. In the latter capacity, he went to Uruzgan, Afghanistan, with his staff, where he became commander of a Provincial Reconstruction Team.
  • After he was promoted to colonel in early 2008, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Military Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Development Cooperation. He was subsequently assigned to the Directorate of Training and Operations of the Royal Netherlands Army, as Head of the Standardisation Division and later as Head of the Planning Division in which capacity he was responsible for the development of a new readiness system.
  • In 2014, he was promoted to Brigadier General and became Director of Training and Operations of the Royal Netherlands Army.