Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American lawyer and politician

Pete Hoekstra

American politician and diplomat (born 1953)

Cornelis Piet Hoekstra is a Dutch-American politician and diplomat who is serving, since 2025, as the 33rd U.S. ambassador to Canada. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2018 to 2021, and was the U.S.…