Biography

Clemence Ross-van Dorp
Ambassador for the Action Programme “New Opportunities for Top Sector Life Sciences & Health” (LSH)

Clémence Ross-van Dorp, former State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport, will be the ambassador for the Action Programme “New Opportunities for Top Sector Life Sciences & Health” (LSH) from 1 January 2020. She will do this on behalf of the Minister for Medical Care and Sport and State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.

Clémence Ross-van Dorp is chair of the Lung Alliance Netherlands. She is also a director at the Agora Foundation and she holds various supervisory positions, for example at the University of Twente and the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology. Ross-Van Dorp was Secretary of State at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport from 2002 to 2007.