Sigrid Kaag, the former D66 leader and finance minister, is listed as one of 11 Donald Trump appointees to a new “Gaza Executive Board” to help deliver “peace, stability, and prosperity for the people of Gaza”.

The Gaza board is a separate entity to Trump’s “board of peace” which includes US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and former British prime minister Tony Blair, as well as property developer Steve Witkoff, and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

However, Blair, Witkoff and Kushner are also part of the board featuring Kaag, who became the United Nations envoy for the reconstruction of Gaza after leaving national politics and went on to become the UN’s envoy for the Middle East peace process.

“The United States remains fully committed to supporting this transitional framework, working in close partnership with Israel, key Arab nations, and the international community to achieve the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan,” the White House statement said.

Additional executive board and Gaza executive board members will be announced over the coming weeks.

Kaag is one of two women on Trump’s newly announced team.

Kaag stepped down from her UN role last June, saying the post should be reshaped or even abolished.

She said at the time the peace process was on “on life support” and said she had initially accepted the post out of a sense of duty, after a direct request from then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Kaag has spent most of her career at the UN, first joining the organisation in 1994. She previously held the role of special coordinator for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons mission in Syria and special coordinator of the United Nations in Lebanon.