# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-bot
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:48:27.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-bot"
name: "Ben Bot"
slug: "ben-bot"
description: "Bernard Rudolf \"Ben\" Bot is a Dutch retired politician and diplomat. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007 in the second and third cabinet of Jan Peter Balkenende. A career ambassador, he succeeded then-Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaap de Hoop Scheffer who resigned to become Secretary General of NATO."
tagline: "Dutch diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Bot%2C_geweest.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1937-11-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.36090933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%82"
    title: "Бен Бот"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bot"
    title: "Bernard Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bot"
    title: "Bernard Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%82%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Бот, Бернард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bot"
    title: "Ben Bot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816446"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump