Organisational chart

Rhodia Maas

Director General IND

The Managing Director General bears ultimate responsibility for implementation of the third-country national policy. In addition, the General Management Department is continuously in contact with the core department, politicians, cooperating organisations and social organisations.

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Jan Willem Schaper

Deputy Director-General (DG)

The Deputy Director-General works with the organisation to shape the IND strategy and its social tasks. In addition, the Deputy Director-General is responsible for quality management, including monitoring compliance. This position also includes responsibility for overseeing the Strategy, Policy and Legal Affairs departments.

Director Strategy, Policy and Legal Affairs

The SBJZ Department advises the Executive Board on the strategic course to be followed. SBJZ is also the department responsible for conducting environmental analyses and policy evaluations, maintaining contact with the ministry, contributing to letters to the House of Representatives, and providing decision-making staff with work instructions and other guidelines derived from policy.

The SBJZ Department is also responsible for legal representation in court proceedings and provides legal advice within the immigration chain. This takes place in a dynamic environment in which case law develops quickly. In addition to the facts and circumstances, SBJZ staff also have an eye and heart for the people behind each case.

Coert Kleijwegt

Director Asylum and Protection

The Asylum and Protection Department is responsible for the decision-making on asylum applications. Interview and decision-making staff, experts on religious conversion and LGBTI matters, experts in cases where war crimes are suspected (1f) and people trained in interviewing unaccompanied minors work there, among others. The staff members are frequently in contact with the cooperating organisations such as the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers , the Legal Aid Board, the national guardianship institution for unaccompanied and separated children in the Netherlands the Repatriation and Departure Service and the Dutch Council for Refugees.

Gerrit-Wim Gerritsen

Director Operational Management

The Operational Management Department makes sure that the IND can perform its tasks as well as possible. The Department is specialised in the areas of HR, finance, control, LEAN, auditing, risk management and facilities management. Therefore the department knows what the organisation needs now, but also in the future. For this purpose, Operational Management makes (comprehensive) recommendations and delivers products and services that are sustainable and future-proof.

Danielle van der Heijden

Acting Director Services

The Services Department provides the other IND departments and cooperating organisations with information, knowledge and expertise that enables them to do their work. For this purpose, the department consists of diverse sections and teams, who each have their specific expertise in relation to applicants of the IND. There are experts on enforcement, documents, medical examinations, client communication, post handling and more.

Martijn Manders

Director Information Provision

The Information Provision Department delivers the ICT solutions that enable the IND to perform its task as well as possible. For example, the department manages the systems the IND works with on a daily basis. At the same time, Information Provision works on the continuous improvement and innovation of the ICT solutions that the IND needs to achieve its ambitions. The data specialists, ICT specialists and information architects of the department work closely together with the other departments.

René Roodzant

Director Regular Residence and Dutch Citizenship

The Regular Residence and Dutch Citizenship Department decides on applications for asylum in the Netherlands. This may for example concern highly skilled workers who come to strengthen the Dutch economy or family members who can embrace one another again after a long time. Students who want to come here to study or people who have already lived her for a longer time and want to become Dutch citizens. In order to help the applicant, the department is subdivided into five different client groups: EU and International, Family & Relatives, Naturalisation, Extensions and Business (Work, Knowledge & Talent, Study & Exchange).