Bas van den Berg was born in 1995 in Apeldoorn (The Netherlands). Before becoming an International Officer, Bas was a consultant in the field of Public Affairs and worked interim at the Public Health Service during the coronavirus pandemic. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Public Administration at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. As part of an exchange program, he spent part of his studentship in Boston (The United States) where he took courses at the University of Massachusetts. Once back in the Netherlands, Bas completed a master’s degree in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and interned at VVD International. During this period, he wrote his thesis about the foreign policy of the European Union in North Africa and the Middle East.
Bas is as International Officer responsible for the international activities of the VVD in North Africa and the Middle East and focuses on establishing, maintaining and expanding relations with liberal sister parties and organizations in this region. One of his goals is to contribute to the capacity building of liberal parties and to support countries in the process of democratisation.
In his spare time, Bas likes to listen to a substantive podcast and hopes to record his own one day. In addition, he loves to visit art museums all over the world and is particularly interested in painting.