In May 2014, Jan Willem Goudriaan was elected as the new general secretary of the European Federation of Public Services Trade Unions (EPSU) at the nineth EPSU Congress. He was re-elected at the tenth EPSU Congress in Dublin in June 2019. He began his career with the Dutch public services trade union AbvaKabo-FNV in 1989. In November 1992, he started to work with EPSU. He was EPSU’s deputy general secretary from 1997 to 2014. He is a member of the ETUC executive committee and the executive board of Public Services International, the global trade union federation of public services unions.