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David van Weel

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

OVERALL RANK
#121of 712
WORLD LEADER RANK
#101of 492
Total Quotes
0
Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%

Sentiment Breakdown

Sentiment: 100% positive, 0% neutral, 0% negative

Quote Timeline

Sun, Jan 18Mon, Jan 19Tue, Jan 20Wed, Jan 21Thu, Jan 22Fri, Jan 23Sat, Jan 24
Coverage by Category190 total
Geopolitics100%

Key Findings

David van Weel ranked #121 among 712 people covered at Davos 2026, receiving 172 media quotes as Minister of Foreign Affairs at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. With 100% positive and 0% negative coverage, David was among the most favorably covered world leaders at the forum.

  • • Below-average media presence at Davos 2026
  • • 100% positive coverage — among the most favorably covered world leaders
  • • Quoted across 10+ publications including NRC and infobae
  • • Most discussed in context of Geopolitics (190 mentions)

Coverage by Source

NRC31
infobae17
NOS16
Eindhovens Dagblad15
Caretas10
La Jornada9
Libertad Digital9
Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo8
20 minutos8
Aristegui Noticias8

Sample Quotes

“I'm making a moral appeal to these companies... don't do it, even if it's not prohibited.”

RT

“We still consider NATO to be the cornerstone of our security. At the same time, we do see that the world is changing and that we're entering a world of geopolitical competition where also Europe needs to step up and needs to become more of an equal partner to the U.S. than we are right now.”

NBC News

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57
190Sanjay Raut
56
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56
192Gustavo Petro
55
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55
194Péter Szijjártó
54
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53
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53
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52
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51
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51
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50
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49
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47
203Denys Shmyhal
47
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46
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46
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46
207Pål Jonson
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45
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45
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45
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45
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44
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44
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44
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44
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43
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43
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43
219Dmitri Peskow
42
220Lisa Nandy
42
221Ed Miliband
41
222Pierre Poilievre
41
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41
224Doug Ford
39
225Eric Beißwenger
39
226Peter Beyer
39
227Jens Spahn
38
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38
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38
230Mahmoud Abbas
38
231Piyush Goyal
38
232Tô Lâm
38
233Stephen Kinnock
37
234Daniel Francisco Chapo
37
235Santiago Peña
37
236Elina Valtonen
35
237Chuck Schumer
35
238Prasetyo Hadi
35
239Petr Pavel
35
240Marie Bjerre
35
241Mario Draghi
35
242Federico Sturzenegger
34
243Hadja Lahbib
34
244Kelemen Hunor
34
245Jonas Gahr Store
34
246Patricia de Lille
34
247Valdis Dombrovskis
34
248Jessica Rosencrantz
33
249Mahmud Abás
33
250María Corina Machado
33
251Olha Stefanischyna
33
252Michael McGrath
32
253Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi
32
254Karin Prien
32
255Leonore Gewessler
32
256Gregory Rusland
32
257Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
31
258King Mohammed VI
30
259Marcin Przydacz
30
260Charles Michel
30
261Jordan Bardella
29
262Sergio Mattarella
29
263Martin Pfister
29
264Dino Patti Djalal
28
265Ronald Lamola
28
266Mohammad Mustafa
28
267Javi López
27
268Jean-Claude Juncker
27
269Olaf Scholz
26
270Nicuşor Dan
26
271Abolfazl Shekarchi
26
272Nikol Pashinyan
26
273Adolf Hitler
26
274Edgars Rinkēvičs
25
275Mario Lubetkin
25
276Markus Söder
24
277Ron DeSantis
24
278Boris Pistorius
24
279Thom Tillis
24
280Rustem Umerow
23
281Al Carns
23
282Takaiçi Sanae
22
283Alexus G. Grynkewich
22
284Franziska Brantner
22
285Denis Șmîhal
21
286Dominique de Villepin
21
287Jürgen Trittin
21
288Oleksii Kuleba
20
289Iratxe García Pérez
20
290Fabio Panetta
20
291Marta Kos
20
292Andy Beshear
20
293Rosan Perkasa Roeslani
20
294Don Bacon
19
295Rishi Sunak
19
296Morten Bødskov
19
297Sara Beysolow-Nyanti
19
298Siergiej Ławrow
19
299Mohammad Movahedi
19
300Guido Crosetto
19
301Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
18
302Matthias Diependaele
18
303Eknath Shinde
18
304Shinjiro Koizumi
18
305Nicholas Kent
17
306Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
17
307Dmitri Medvedev
16
308Lisa Murkowski
16
309David Eby
16
310Rafał Rosiński
16
311Henna Virkkunen
16
312Giancarlo Giorgetti
16
313Germán Ávila Plazas
15
314Bernardo Arévalo
15
315Axel Kicillof
15
316Juri Uschakow
15
317Felix Banaszak
14
318Yuliia Svyrydenko
14
319Dame Emily Thornberry
14
320George H. W. Bush
14
321Brooke Rollins
14
322Lee Jae-myung
14
323Jarosław Kaczyński
14
324Alberto Núñez Feijóo
14
325Aleksander Kwaśniewski
14
326Winston Churchill
14
327Fernando Haddad
14
328Nicolás Maduro
14
329Gabriela Sommerfeld
13
330Ronald Reagan
13
331Itamar Ben-Gvir
13
332Vassilis Kikilias
13
333Kim Min-seok
12
334Taras Kachka
12
335Anthony Albanese
12
336Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik
12
337Alexander Hoffmann
12
338Patricia Bullrich
12
339Carl Bildt
12
340Kristupas Vaitiekūnas
11
341Rudy Salahuddin
11
342Marius Lazurca
11
343Krzysztof Gawkowski
11
344Stephen Miller
11
345A. P. Singh
11
346Babulal Marandi
11
347Papa Leone XIV
11
348Prahlad Joshi
11
349Luís Montenegro
10
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10
351Elizabeth Warren
10
352Rossen Scheljaskow
10
353Stefan Kornelius
10
354Mike Pence
10
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10
356Josh Hawley
9
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9
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9
359Gheorghe Falcă
9
360Yanis Varoufakis
9
361Matteo Salvini
9
362Adolfo Urso
9
363José Ramos-Horta
9
364Bernie Sanders
9
365Joseph Deiss
9
366Dovilė Šakalienė
9
367Alexandru Nazare
9
368Mesud Pezeşkiyan
9
369Olusegun Obasanjo
8
370Yemi Osinbajo
8
371Elio Di Rupo
8
372Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa
8
373Dr. Harini Amarasuriya
8
374John Thune
8
375Alparslan Bayraktar
8
376Bill Clinton
8
377Martin Schlegel
8
378Aqqaluaq B. Egede
8
379Cezary Tomczyk
8
380Teresa Ribera
8
381Mariana Betsa
7
382Rand Paul
7
383Peter Boysen
7
384Santiago Abascal
7
385King Charles III
7
386Hà Lập Phong
7
387Nikolay Mladenov
6
388Sarah B. Rogers
6
389Yves-François Blanchet
6
390Michael McCaul
6
391Metin Hakverdi
6
392Sigmar Gabriel
6
393Jayant Chaudhary
6
394Rainer Baake
6
395Christian Görke
6
396Magdalena Andersson
6
397Rajesh Agrawal
6
398Tom Fletcher
6
399Peter Welch
6
400Nurul Ichwan
6
401Jairam Ramesh
6
402Napoleon Bonaparte
6
403Harry S. Truman
5
404Rustem Umierov
5
405Karsten Wildberger
5
406Mike Pompeo
5
407Maud Bregeon
5
408Sergio Gor
5
409Artem Rybchenko
5
410Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
4
411Witalij Kliczko
4
412Lerato Mataboge
4
413Hun Manet
4
414Petr Macinka
4
415Rumen Radev
4
416Christiane Schenderlein
4
417Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic
4
418Kristi Noem
4
419Sukanta Majumdar
4
420Igor Terejov
4
421Aleksandr Lukaşenko
3
422Bassem Naim
3
423Seethakka
3
424Doug Burgum
3
425Teddy Indra Wijaya
3
426Roderich Kiesewetter
3
427Luis Videgaray Caso
3
428Manohar Lal
3
429Dmitrij Pieskow
3
430Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi
3
431Maria Zakharova
3
432Umierow
3
433Dan Barna
3
434Annick Girardin
3
435Shivraj Singh Chouhan
3
436Robert Lansing
3
437Margarita Robles
3
438Papa Francisco
3
439Josep Borrell
3
440Sana Sathish Babu
2
441Besset
2
442Luigi Mattarella
2
443Terje Aasland
2
444Catherine Vautrin
2
445Rafaela Cortés Zambrano
2
446Sanjay Kumar
2
447Ruslan Stefanchuk
2
448Harsh Saghavi
2
449Luis Alberto Jaramillo
2
450Tymur Tkachenko
2
451Josh Shapiro
2
452Adam Szłapka
2
453Wolfram Weimer
2
454Muhammad Yunus
2
455Ravi Kahlon
2
456Raffaele Fitto
2
457Mikhail Mishustin
2
458Guo Caikun
2
459Andy Ogles
2
460Ro Khanna
2
461Margus Tsahkna
2
462Andrej Kolesnik
2
463Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy
2
464Fabian Kyrieleis
1
465Paul Volcker
1
466Oriol Junqueras
1
467Lena Metlege Diab
1
468Mathieu Lefèvre
1
469Tim Hodgson
1
470Mike Wallace
1
471Mikael Odenberg
1
472Dirk Schrödter
1
473Adis Ahmetovic
1
474Sarah Troutman
1
475Igor Grosu
1
476Rosen Jelyazkov
1
477Peter Navarro
1
478Marina Silva
1
479Chris Van Hollen
1
480Rusłan Stefanczuk
1
481Louis XIV
1
482Gombojav Zandanshatar
1
483Ahmed Shide
1
484Akhenaton
1
485Jenniffer González
1
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Profile

Type
World Leader
Title
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Organization
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands