List of ministers of foreign affairs of the Netherlands
The minister of foreign affairs is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers. The incumbent minister is David van Weel of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. Regularly, a state secretary is assigned to the ministry who is tasked with specific portfolios, currently Aukje de Vries. Additionally since 1965 there has been a minister without portfolio assigned to the ministry, the minister for foreign trade and development cooperation has traditionally development cooperation as portfolio, since 2012 the portfolio of trade and export has been assigned added to the function.