Joke Brandt

Johanna M. G. (Joke) Brandt, also known internationally as Yoka Brandt (born 1958), is a Dutch diplomat, administrator and civil servant who has served as her country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since 2020. She was previously Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF (2012−2016) and the Dutch ambassador to Uganda (2000−2004) and Eritrea (2000−2004).

Career
Brandt studied geography and development at Utrecht University and worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spending some time at the embassy in South Africa, before serving as ambassador to Eritrea (2000−2004) and Uganda (2004−2007).

In 2007, having returned to The Hague, she became Deputy Director General for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before assuming the role of Director General the following year. After a four-year spell as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF in New York, she was selected to succeed Renée Jones-Bos as Secretary General of the Ministry.

In 2020 she was appointed Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York.