US embassy cable - 04THEHAGUE1365

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 THE HAGUE 001365 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SECSTATE FOR ECA/PE/V/R/E - STEVE TAYLOR; INFO 
EUR/PPD - BRIAN GUSS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO, OEXC, SCUL, NL 
SUBJECT: FY-2005 IVP Nomination - Principal candidate 
Mr. Richard Cornelius Berkhout 
 
1. Post is pleased to nominate Mr. Richard Cornelius 
Berkhout as a principal candidate for an FY-2005 IVP grant, 
excluding international travel benefits. 
 
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POST-EMAIL: dankelmanE@state.gov 
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ECA-OFFICE: E/VGE 
PROG-AGENCY-NAME: 
POST-PROJ-ID: 149 
ECA-PROJ-NO: 
PROJ-NAME: Berkhout, Richard Cornelius 
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Individual program on terrorist financing and money 
laundering 
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PROJ-TYPE: Individual 
PROG-TYPE: IV Grant Visitor 
FY: 2005 
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SESSION-DATE: 
RETURN-POST: 
NO-OF-PART: 1 
RANK-ORDER: 2 
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ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1047 
PROG-AGENCY-ID: 
PROJ-TYPE-ID: IND 
PROG-TYPE-ID: 29 
NOMINATING-POST-ID: 4276 
FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 29321 
STATUS: N 
ORIGINATOR: P 
SUBJ-DISC: Money Laundering 
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PREFIX: Mr. 
F-NAME: Richard 
M-NAME: Cornelius 
L-NAME: Berkhout 
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POSITION-CODE: 0 
PRINCIPAL?: Yes 
M-ADDR1: Ministry of Finance 
M-ADDR2: P.O. Box 20201 
M-ADDR3: 
M-CITY: 2500 EE The Hague 
M-STATE: 
M-CNTRY: Netherlands 
M-ZONE: 
M-ZIP: 
M-PHONE: 31-70-342-8863 
M-FAX: 31-70-342-7918 
M-EMAIL: r.c.berkhout@minfin.nl 
M-CNTRY-ID: NL 
M-ADDRTYPE: B 
GENDER: M 
DOB: 09/22/1973 
MAR-STAT: M 
BIRTH-CITY: Delft 
BIRTH-CNTRY: Netherlands 
CITIZ-CNTRY: Netherlands 
RES-CNTRY: Netherlands 
START MEMO POSITION: 
Senior Policy Officer, Ministry of Finance 
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START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
Main responsibilities / achievements: General Anti Money 
Laundering / Combating the Financing of Duties include: 
Terrorism (AML/CFT) policies; international coordination of 
AML/CFT policies for the Netherlands; member of the 
Netherlands delegation to the Financial Action Task Force on 
money laundering; Expert in U.S. - Dutch Pilot Project on 
Freezing of terrorist assets, i.e. best practices paper on 
FATF special recommendation III; jurisdictions in the Middle 
East and Africa (off-site evaluation of Israel and on-site 
evaluation of Egypt, assessments of Lebanon and Nigeria); 
relations with and on site evaluations of Aruba and the 
Netherlands Antilles. 
END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
Oct. 2000 - March 2001   Assistant for Economic and Monetary 
Affairs to Mrs Leke van de Burg, Member of the European 
Parliament, Group of the Party of European Social Democrats 
(secondment by the Netherlands Ministry of Finance), day-to- 
day parliamentary business and the organization of a high 
level Conference on Corporate Governance. 
Oct. 1999 - Oct 2000     Trainee Dutch Ministry of Finance, 
introducing a legal framework for individual personal 
benefit programs for governmental employees. 
May - July 1999          Research-assistant, University of 
Leiden, Department of         Political Science 
Jan. - June 1999    Internship at the "Netherlands Institute 
of International 
Relations Clingendael" in The Hague. Research on the Dutch 
public opinion on Agenda 2000 (EU budget) and EU 
enlargement, coordinated by: "Institut fr Europ sche 
Politik", Bonn (Germany) and "Trans European Policy Studies 
Association", Brussels (Belgium). Additional research on EU- 
decision making structures with Dutch ministries. 
 
 
 
 
 
END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO US-TRAVEL: 
Study trip to Washington DC/New York in November 1998 (with 
the University of Leiden's Political Science Students 
Association) 
A holiday in New York in February 2000 
The special Terrorist Finance FATF plenary in Washington DC 
in October/November 2001 
The Pilot Project trip to Washington in April 2002. 
 
 
 
 
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START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: 
Official Travel to Argentina, the Netherlands Antilles, 
Aruba, Hong Kong, Egypt and several EU-countries; 
Personal Travel to Morocco, Iceland, Turkey, Cyprus, the 
Baltic States, Switzerland, Malta, PRoChina & Macau (while 
in Hong Kong) and several EU-countries. 
 
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START MEMO EDUCATION: 
1995 - 2000    University of Leiden, Law School 
Major: M.A. degree in political science and law 
(international affairs) 
Jan. - June 1999   ABN-AMRO Honours Class on European 
Governance, by Oxford University and University of Leiden 
1993 - 1995   University of Leiden, B.A. in Law 
1992 - 1993   College of Rotterdam, training for high school 
teacher, major: History 
1987 - 1992   High school (The Netherlands) 
1980 - 1987   Elementary and high school (Switzerland) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
 
END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: 
Berkhout, R.C., Discussiren over Europese politie- en 
justitiesamenwerking, in: Internationale Spectator, Volume 
53/3, The Hague,184 - 185 (Book review on European police co- 
operation) 
(March 1999) 
Berkhout, R.C., The Netherlands, in: Enlargement / Agenda 
2000 - Watch, Institut fr Europ sche Politik (IEP) en 
Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), 
no.1/1999, Bonn/Brussels (on the Netherlands public opinion 
towards the EU budget and the EU-enlargement). (June 1999) 
Berkhout, R.C., en Pijpers, A.E., Die Niederlande, in: 
Weidenfeld, W., en Wessels, W., Jahrbuch der Europ schen 
Integration 1998/1999, Institut fr Europ sche Politik, 
Bonn, 371 - 376 (on the Netherlands EU policies and politics 
1998/1999) (November 1999) 
 
 
 
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FIRST-LANG: Dutch 
ENGL-READ: 4 
ENGL-SPEAK: 4 
ENGL-COMP: 4 
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OTHER-LANG: German 
an 
OTHER-LANG-ID: GM 
READ: 4 
SPEAK: 4 
COMP: 4 
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OTHER-LANG: French 
OTHER-LANG-ID: FR 
READ: 2 
SPEAK: 2 
COMP: 2 
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OTHER-LANG: Russian 
OTHER-LANG-ID: RU 
READ: 1 
SPEAK: 1 
COMP: 1 
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START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: 
 
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NOMINATING-OFFICER: Todd Kushner 
START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: 
Richard is one of our key Dutch government interlocutors on 
issues concerning the countering of terrorist financing and 
anti-money laundering.  He was one of the architects and 
implementers of the U.S.-Dutch pilot project on 
implementation of terrorist assets blocking orders - this 
pilot project has been accepted by the FATF and the IMF as 
international standards.  Richard will continue to play an 
important role in shaping Dutch and EU policies and opinions 
on these issue through the Dutch EU presidency and beyond. 
In particular, Richard works on the key issue of regulating 
the financial flows through charities, assessing for the 
FATF the policies and regulations of countries whose anti- 
money laundering efforts need special attention from the 
international community, and in designing regulations for to 
prevent the Dutch financial sector from being misused by 
terrorists.   Both he and we would benefit from an IV 
program that enables interaction with a broad range of U.S. 
institutions involved with countering terrorist financing 
and money laundering including policymakers at Treasury, 
Justice, State, and NSC; banks, insurance companies, 
financial associations (e.g. American Banking Association), 
regulators and law enforcement. 
 
 
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NOM-OFF: ECON 
SPEAKER?: No 
NOTIFY-EMB: Yes 
MEDIA?: No 
HOME-STAY: No 
HOME-HOSP?: Yes 
E-I-TYPE: NONE 
NOMINEE-ID: 323 
PERSON-ID: 268 
BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: NL 
CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: NL 
RES-CNTRY-ID: NL 
FIRST-LANG-ID: DU 
E-I-TYPE-ID: N 
NOM-POST-ID: 4276 
NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 29321 
NOM-STATUS: N 
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