Jasper Wesseling

Jasper Wesseling was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1966. He was raised in the Netherlands and also spent part of his childhood in France and the United States (in Paris and in Princeton, New Jersey respectively). After one year of college at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, he studied economics at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in business finance and international economic relations. He graduated in 1991 with a dissertation on trade policy in the European Union. He joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs after completing a postgraduate vocational course for financial and economic policy officers at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

His first positions were in the General Economic Policy Department and at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. Between 2000 and 2004 he was responsible for bilateral programmes between the Netherlands and over 20 countries in central 
and eastern Europe. Subsequently, as one of the directors of the Agency for International Business and Cooperation (EVD), he was responsible for a far larger number of countries and regions. In 2004 he became Director of the Executive Office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and, in 2008, Director of the Regional Affairs and Economic Policy Department. As of 2011 he was Deputy DirectorGeneral for Enterprise and Innovation. 

In 2017, he transferred to the Ministry of Finance as Deputy Director-General, and then Director-General, for Tax and Customs Policy and Legislation. In August 2024 he became Treasurer-General of the Ministry of Finance. The Treasury ensures the proper functioning of the financial markets, manages and finances the national debt, analyses and advises on international and European financial and economic developments, and manages the state’s shareholdings in enterprises. In this way it helps maintain the nation’s financial health by working with others to promote financial and economic stability at home and abroad, and financing tasks and activities that serve the public interest.

Jasper Wesseling is married to Regina van der Hoeven and has three children who are currently studying. He enjoys water sports, including rowing and sailing.