Paulus Wilhelmus Adrianus (Paul) Schellekens (born 1951) is a civil servant and diplomat in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. Schellekens began his career as assistant legal advisor at the

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. From 1994 to 1998 he was the

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. From 1998 to 2002, Schellekens was head of the political department and

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to the Netherlands embassy in

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, and from 2002 to 2006 he served as the Netherlands

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Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. 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 Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

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. He took up this position in the summer of 2012. Schellekens was succeeded by drs. Chris Breedveld, the former deputy director-general of the

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. He is married to Maureen van Rijk.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schellekens, Paul 1951 births Living people Dutch civil servants Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Ireland Ambassadors of the Netherlands to Peru