Drs Rien Timmer

Director Spiritual Care Service, Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI), The Netherlands

Rien Timmer is, since 2023, Director of the nation-wide working Spiritual Care Service (Dienst Geestelijke Verzorging, DGV), one of the national departments of the Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI) of The Netherlands. His backgrounds are in business-economics, but he ran through a diverse career in employer and labour-organisations. For thirteen years he was general director of Exodus, a Dutch NGO, developing and organising all kinds of projects and programs in and outside prisons, supporting a possitive re-entrance of (former) detainees in society. Before entering the service as government official at DJI he was for more than seven years chairman of the board of a group of schools for children and young people with special educational needs.