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Anthony (Tony) Agotha (1970, USA) is a Dutch diplomat who is currently Ambassador at large/EU Special Envoy for Climate and Environment  (EEAS, MDGLOBAL). Previously he worked in the cabinets of First/Executive Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans as communication adviser and senior diplomatic adviser respectively. Tony Agotha joined the Netherlands Diplomatic Service in 1996 and started at the Office of the Secretary General in the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs (The Hague) before being posted abroad at the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the EU in Brussels. In 2005 he became Deputy Ambassador at the Netherlands Embassy in Ljubljana (Slovenia). He joined the European Commission in the Türkiye Team (DG Enlargement) as a seconded national expert in 2008. When the euro crisis broke out in 2009, he returned to the Dutch diplomatic service and become the spokesperson of the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the EU. In 2013 he was appointed head of unit in the EU integration directorate at the MFA (The Hague) and two years later became acting deputy Director of the EU Integration Directorate (DIE) responsible for general management and organisation of the Dutch EU presidency after which he joined the European Commission in 2016. He studied Public Administration & Political Science at the University of Twente (1995) and wrote his Masters’ thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC) as a visiting scholar on the Reagan Defense Budget ‘Running the Race’. Tony Agotha is married with four children (and two (big) dogs). He loves baseball, running, reading, and family time.