Wouter Raab (1955) is since 2007 director of the Financing Directorate at the Ministry of Finance in the Netherlands, where he was director, Foreign Financial Relations since July 2000. He started his career at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in 1982. In 1987 he moved to the Ministry of Finance to work at the General Financial and Economic Policy Directorate. In 1991 he moved to the Foreign Financial Relations Directorate to become head of the Multilateral Banks Division and head of the International Monetary Affairs Division.