Ella van den Heuvel

Ella van den Heuvel is a military gender expert in the Dutch Armed Forces with whom she has served
since 1998. In her work she focuses on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace &
Security. Ella has been deployed as a military gender advisor for NATO in Afghanistan in 2009 and
in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in 2017 and 2019. She has also worked as
a part-time gender adviser for NATO to the Jordanian Armed Forces (2018-2020). She currently is
the gender adviser of the Dutch Chief of Defence.