Baron Berend-Jan Marie van voorst" target="_blank">Voorst tot voorst" target="_blank">Voorst (7 February 1944 – 6 November 2023) was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist.
Van voorst" target="_blank">Voorst tot voorst" target="_blank">Voorst worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from July 1968 until September 1972 and as a diplomat for the Directorate-General for External Relations of the European Commission in Brussels from September 1972 until May 1985. Van voorst" target="_blank">Voorst tot voorst" target="_blank">Voorst worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Economic Affairs as Director-General of the department for Foreign Trade from May 1985 until September 1988. Van voorst" target="_blank">Voorst tot voorst" target="_blank">Voorst was appointed State Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Lubbers II following the resignation of René van der Linden, taking office on 27 September 1988. Van voorst" target="_blank">Voorst tot voorst" target="_blank">Voorst was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1989, taking office on 14 September 1989. Following the cabinet formation of 1989 Van voorst" target="_blank">Voorst tot voorst" target="_blank">Voorst was appointed State Secretary for Defence in the Cabinet Lubbers III, taking office on 7 November 1989.
In June 1993 Van voorst" target="_blank">Voorst tot voorst" target="_blank">Voorst was nominated as Queen's Commissioner of Limburg, he resigned as a State Secretary on 1 June 1993 and was installed as Queen's Commissioner, serving from 1 July 1993 until 1 July 2005.
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