US embassy cable - 03THEHAGUE1552

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 THE HAGUE 001552 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SECSTATE FOR ECA/PE/V/F/E - EILEEN CONNOLLY; 
BRUSSELS FOR CSABA CHIKES; INFO EUR/PD-BRIAN GUSS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO, OEXC, SCUL, NL 
SUBJECT: EU Subregional Voluntary Visitor Program on 
Financial Market Issues 
 
REF: Brussels 02756 
 
1. As requested in ref cable, Post is pleased to confirm 
the nomination of the Dutch participant in the EU 
Subregional Voluntary Visitor program on Financial Market 
Issues, Mr. Willem J. Kooi, Policy Advisor of 
International Monetary Affairs, Ministry of Finance. 
 
2. It is understood that the ten-day program will begin on 
July 28, 2003, and that the program will be fully funded, 
except for the international airfare, which will be paid 
by Mr. Kooi. 
 
3. Full biographic info in EVDB format follows: 
START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): 
: The following data is in a fixed format which enables 
: automated processing in Washington and should not be 
: edited except by means of the Post-EVDB software. 
EXPORT-SOURCE: POST-EVDB 
VERSION: 3.0.7 
POST-EMAIL: dankelmanE@state.gov 
TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS The Hague 
TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 4276 
EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA 
START NOMINATION: 
ECA-OFFICE: E/VFE 
PROG-AGENCY-NAME: 
POST-PROJ-ID: 139 
ECA-PROJ-NO: 
PROJ-NAME: Volvis Program on Financial Market Issues 
START MEMO PROJ-DESC: 
 
END MEMO PROJ-DESC: 
PROJ-TYPE: Sub-Regional 
PROG-TYPE: Voluntary Visitor 
FY: 2003 
DEPART-POST: 07/26/2003 
SESSION-DATE: 07/28/2003 
RETURN-POST: 08/09/2003 
NO-OF-PART: 1 
RANK-ORDER: 0 
START MEMO POST-OBJ: 
 
END MEMO POST-OBJ: 
START MEMO POST-RCMD: 
 
END MEMO POST-RCMD: 
ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1033 
PROG-AGENCY-ID: 
PROJ-TYPE-ID: SRP 
PROG-TYPE-ID: 30 
NOMINATING-POST-ID: 4276 
FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 29321 
STATUS: N 
ORIGINATOR: P 
SUBJ-DISC: Financial Markets 
START BIO: 
PREFIX: Mr. 
F-NAME: Willem 
M-NAME: J. 
L-NAME: Kooi 
SUFFIX: 
POSITION-CODE: 0 
PRINCIPAL?: Yes 
M-ADDR1: Ministry of Finance 
M-ADDR2: International Monetary Affairs Dept. 
M-ADDR3: P.O. Box 20201 
M-CITY: 2500 EC The Hague 
M-STATE: 
M-CNTRY: Netherlands 
M-ZONE: 
M-ZIP: 
M-PHONE: 00-31-70-342-7669 
M-FAX: 
M-EMAIL: w.j.kooi@minfin.nl 
M-CNTRY-ID: NL 
M-ADDRTYPE: B 
GENDER: M 
DOB: 03/17/1975 
MAR-STAT: S 
BIRTH-CITY: 
BIRTH-CNTRY: Netherlands 
CITIZ-CNTRY: Netherlands 
RES-CNTRY: Netherlands 
START MEMO POSITION: 
Policy Advisor of International Monetary Affairs, Ministry 
of Finance 
END MEMO POSITION: 
START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
January 2003 - present  Member of the board of the Christian 
Democratic Party 
January 2002 - present  Chairman CDJA The Hague (Christian 
Democratic Youth Party) 
 
END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
January 2002 - March 2002  Lecturer on Financial Markets and 
Institutions, Open University 
February 2000 - March 2002 English teacher, voluntary work 
at the Centro Juvenile de Marcavalle (juvenile prison in 
Cusco, Peru) 
January 1999 - December 1999 Quantitative macro-economic 
analyst at the Research Department of TPG KPN Pension Fund 
July 1998 - October 1998 Research at Tallinn Technical 
University (Estonia) on the stability of the financial 
system 
May 1996 - December 1998 Research Assistant to Professor dr. 
J. de Haan, Department of Macro Economics/Public Finances, 
University of Groningen, the Netherlands 
Other activities: 
November 2000 - January 2003  Member and Vice-President of 
the CDJA Working Group on Europe 
May 1998 - May 1999  Assessor of Panta Rhei, part of student 
organization VCS Hendrik de Cock 
September 1996 - September 1997  Chairman of the Groningen 
Student Alpine Club 
 
END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO US-TRAVEL: 
None 
END MEMO US-TRAVEL: 
START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: 
Western Europe, Peru 
END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: 
START MEMO EDUCATION: 
Since September 2002 --  Candidate Chartered Financial 
Analyst level I (consisting of three levels in total with 
yearly exams) 
March - April 2002  --   PhD course International Economics 
Jan 2000  --  Spanish course, Escuela de Idioma Amauta, 
Cusco, Peru 
1993 - 1998 --  Master of Science in General Economics, 
University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Specialisation in 
monetary and international macro-economics and extra studies 
in econometrics 
1987 - 1993 --  VWO (high school) at Emelwerdacollege, 
Emmeloord 
Excel, Eviews, Word, Time Series Processing (MicroTSP), 
Thomson Financial Datastream 
 
END MEMO EDUCATION: 
START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
Member of the Christian Democratic Party 
END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: 
J. de Haan and W.J. Kooi, "Does Central Bank Independence 
Really Matter? New Evidence for Developing Countries Using a 
New Indicator", Journal of Banking and Finance, 24 (2000), 
pp. 643 - 664 
J. de Haan and W.J. Kooi, "What Really Matters: Central Bank 
Conservativeness or Independence?", Banca Nazionale del 
Lavoro Quarterly Review, March 1997, pp.23-38 
J.E. Engelberts and W.J. Kooi, "Kapitaalstromen naar hogere 
middeninkomenslanden", Economisch Statistische Berichten, 
January 3rd 2002 [On capital flows to upper middle income 
countries] 
W.J. Kooi, "Tekort lopende rekening VS onhoudbaar", 
Economisch Statistische Berichten, November 9th 2001 [On the 
US current account deficit] 
W.J. Kooi, "Houdbaarbeid van lopenderekeningtekorten en het 
schuldencriterium", to appear in Maandschrift Economie, 
Volume 67 (2003) [On the sustainability of the current 
accounts and the debt criterion] 
 
 
 
 
 
END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: 
START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: 
 
END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: 
FIRST-LANG: Dutch 
ENGL-READ: 4 
ENGL-SPEAK: 4 
ENGL-COMP: 4 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: Spanish 
OTHER-LANG-ID: QB 
READ: 4 
SPEAK: 4 
COMP: 4 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: German 
OTHER-LANG-ID: GM 
READ: 3 
SPEAK: 3 
COMP: 3 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: French 
OTHER-LANG-ID: FR 
READ: 2 
SPEAK: 2 
COMP: 2 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: 
 
END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: 
START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: 
 
END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: 
START MEMO VIS-OBJ: 
 
END MEMO VIS-OBJ: 
START MEMO VIS-REC: 
 
END MEMO VIS-REC: 
NOMINATING-OFFICER: Todd Kushner 
START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: 
As the Treasurer General's principal advisor on U.S. 
financial and monetary affairs, participation in this 
program would equip Willem Kooi to deliver more insightful 
and balanced judgments and policy recommendations to senior 
Finance Ministry officials on matters affecting U.S.-EU 
financial relations, bilateral financial relations, and 
development of EU internal markets. Kooi has worked on 
financial market issues -- even lectured on them at a 
university level -- but lacks direct exposure to the 
sophisticated U.S. marketplace. Intelligent, influential, 
and politically active (in the Christian Democratic party -- 
currently the largest party in the Netherlands), we expect 
Kooi to rise to increasing positions of influence and 
authority. 
END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: 
NOM-OFF: ECON 
SPEAKER?: No 
NOTIFY-EMB: No 
MEDIA?: No 
HOME-STAY: No 
HOME-HOSP?: No 
E-I-TYPE: 
NOMINEE-ID: 301 
PERSON-ID: 245 
BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: NL 
CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: NL 
RES-CNTRY-ID: NL 
FIRST-LANG-ID: DU 
E-I-TYPE-ID: 
NOM-POST-ID: 4276 
NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 29321 
NOM-STATUS: N 
DS2019-ACTION: 1 
DS2019-SUBJECT: 
SPONS-FUNDS: 0 
SPONS-AGENCY1: 
USGOVT-AGENCY1: 
US-AGENCY-AMT1: 0 
USGOVT-AGENCY2: 
US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 
INTL-ORG1: 
INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 
INTL-ORG2: 
INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 
VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 
COMMISSION: 0 
OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 
VIS-AMOUNT: 0 
VIS-CAT: 
END BIO: 
END NOMINATION: 
END FIXED-FORMAT TEXT: 
Baily