Robert Kloosterhuis has been a general vice-president of the General Conference (Seventh Day Adventist Church) since 1985. He holds a Master's degree from Andrews University, U.S.A., (1965). He has served the Church in the Franco-Haitian Union, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from 1954 to 1964, and from 1976 to 1980. He was president, from 1980 to 1985, of the Africa-Indian Ocean Division of the Church with headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Kloosterhuis is married to the former Ruth Schoun, and they have two sons, David and James.