Angélique is a Dutch civil servant. Over the past 25 years she regularly lived, worked and studied within the Palestinian Territories and Israel and worked on Dutch foreign policy on the conflict for a number of years after she joined the Dutch Foreign Service in 2002. Directly prior to that she lived in Hebron for a year and a half, working for the Temporary International Presence in the city, initially as an observer, later on as the legal adviser of the organization. In the nineties she also worked on an Israeli kibutz, did an internship at the Netherlands Representative Office in Ramallah and studied both at the Hebrew University and Birzeit University. Most recently, Angélique was posted in Congo (2010 to 2012) and subsequently served as deputy ambassador at the Dutch embassy in Muscat until 2016. Angélique is married, has three children and currently lives in The Netherlands.