Ambassador Willem Wouter Plomp was born on 29 May 1962 in Middelburg, the Netherlands. He graduated from Leiden Municipal Gymnasium and soon after he continued his university studies at the University of Utrecht. He received his BA in Contemporary History in 1984 and in 1988 he completed his MA in International Law. In 1989 he joined the Foreign Ministry of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as a career diplomat and started serving at the Embassies in Warsaw, Prague and Guatemala, as well as at the Security and Human Rights Department in The Hague.
Since 2005 he has worked at the Central and Southern Division and in 2009 his was appointed as Ambassador for the first time, to Benin in West Africa. Before taking up his role as the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Cyprus, he served as a Deputy Head of Mission in Indonesia and as a Hea of mission, in North Macedonia, Pakistan and Nigeria.
Mr. Plomp is married to Ms. Henriette Suzanne Winkler and together they have 5 children. Among his many passions, he enjoys visiting the different landscapes of Cyprus and engaging in birdwatching with local environmental organizations.