Top official Marc Kuipers succeeds Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg as NCTV

Diplomat Marc Kuipers becomes the following National Coordinator of Terrorism and Security (NCTV). He starts on January 1, 2026 and succeeds Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, who will stop in September. On Friday, the Council of Ministers agreed to the nomination of Kuipers by outgoing Minister of the Interior Judith Uitermark (NSC).

As a NCTV boss, Kuipers will soon act as the country’s national security adviser. Among other things, it will be his job to communicate to the general public about threats and the chance of attacks. The very public function is the next job for Kuipers in a long career as a senior official in The Hague. He previously worked as an inspector general at the Labor Inspectorate, deputy director-general at the AIVD and at the Ministry of Justice. Kuipers is currently consul-general in the Japanese city of Osaka.

Kuipers speaks in a written statement about “a time of hybrid threat“, Where cooperation” between government, professionals and society is essential. ” He wants to “continue working on an open and resilient Netherlands”.

Fifth

Kuipers is the fifth man who leads the terrorism control service of the Dutch government, a body that was founded in 2004. Earlier, current outgoing Prime Minister Dick Schoof, among other things, fulfilled this function. Shoving and current NCTV boss Aalbersberg will soon have to testify to the court against the criminal case of spy Abderrahim El M. He worked for thirty years as a top analyst at the NCTV in the field of jihadism and Salafism and, according to the Public Prosecution Service, would have transferred state-secret information to Morocco.

Reported in 2021 NRC Based on its own investigation that the NCTV has interfered with criminal prosecution and supervision in individual cases. This has led to tensions with the OM that the coordinator has addressed this several times. For example, the NCTV, even after refusing the OM due to insufficient grounds, continued to persist on the director of the Islamic Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam.

Between the departure of Aalbersberg and the appointment of Kuipers, from September to January, Wieke Vink temporarily observes the position of NCTV.

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