Pronouns: She/her
Ms Stella Ronner-Grubačić was appointed Deputy Managing Director for Values and Multilateral Relations on 1 November 2023. More particularly, she is in charge of relations with the UN and the Council of Europe, focusing on human rights and democratic processes through elections.
She is also the EU Ambassador for Gender and Diversity, a position she has occupied since July 2021. In this position, she has prioritized the implementation of the third EU Gender Action Plan and introducing a strategy in the EEAS for Diversity and Inclusion.
After having obtained her Master’s degree (European Studies) at the University of Amsterdam in 1989, and having finished post-graduate studies of International Relations at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague, Ms. Stella Ronner-Grubačić started her diplomatic career at the Dutch Foreign Ministry in August 1991.
She worked in the Foreign Ministry’s multilateral department, after which she was posted at the Embassy in Belgrade. Her following posting in Paris was preceded by a year (‘Cycle International’) at the French ‘Ecole Nationale d’Administration’ in Paris. In 2001, Ms Ronner-Grubačić was seconded to the OSCE Mission to the FRY (Former Republic of Yugoslavia). Following that, she became Spokesperson to former Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, at the time when the Netherlands carried out the OSCE Chairmanship. In 2004, she took up the position of Spokesperson for the Dutch EU Presidency. Following various other positions in the Ministry in The Hague, including as Ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals, Ms. Stella Ronner-Grubačić was appointed Ambassador to Croatia in 2010. After having served in The Hague as Director of Communication, she was accredited as Ambassador to Romania and the Republic of Moldova. From Bucharest, she moved to Athens, where she was accredited as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Hellenic Republic from September 2019 until the summer of 2021.