Mr. de Mol has been Deputy Head of the Mission at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Prague since 2008. He is responsible for EU and political affairs, the coordination of the Czech-EU presidency (from January to June 2009) as well as internal management. He also works as the Civilian Representative in the Task Force Uruzgan (TFU VIII) and Director of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT 8 and 9). Together with General Kees van den Heuvel he is responsible for the overall management of the Task Force in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan. During his career he has held various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was assigned to be First Secretary at the Netherlands Permanent Mission to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva (1999-2003) or Head of the Department for Culture, Education and Science at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Moscow dealing with the Russian Federation, Georgia, Armenia and Central-Asian Republics (1995-1999).