Swedish Diplomatic Legends
Swedish diplomats, peace brokers, UN figures, foreign ministers, and international negotiators who shaped world affairs.
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Raoul Wallenberg
Diplomat and humanitarian who saved Jews in wartime Budapest · Swedish diplomacy
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II.
Dag Hammarskjöld
UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate · United Nations
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
Folke Bernadotte
Diplomat, humanitarian, and UN mediator · United Nations / Red Cross
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt Ghetto. They were released on 14 April 1945.
Harald Edelstam
Diplomat known for protecting dissidents and refugees · Swedish diplomacy
Gustav Harald Edelstam was a Swedish diplomat. During World War II he earned the nickname Svarta nejlikan for helping hundreds of Norwegian Jews, SOE agents, and saboteurs escape from the Germans.
Alva Myrdal
Diplomat, disarmament advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate · Disarmament diplomacy
Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
Hans Blix
Diplomat and international weapons inspector · UN weapons inspections
Hans Martin Blix is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Jan Eliasson
Diplomat, UN Deputy Secretary-General, and General Assembly president · United Nations
Jan Kenneth Eliasson is a Swedish diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 2012 to December 2016. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Eliasson served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 April to 6 October 2006.
Gunnar Jarring
Diplomat and UN special representative · Middle East diplomacy
Gunnar Valfrid Jarring was a Swedish diplomat and Turkologist.
Sverker Åström
Diplomat and senior foreign-policy adviser · Swedish foreign service
Carl Sverker Åström was a Swedish diplomat. After completing his studies, Åström began his career as an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm.
Rolf Ekéus
Diplomat and UN weapons inspector · Disarmament diplomacy
Carl Rolf Ekéus is a Swedish diplomat. Ekéus had a long career in diplomacy and international security. He began as a district court clerk before joining the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1962, with postings in Bonn, Nairobi, and The Hague.
Staffan de Mistura
Diplomat and UN special envoy · United Nations
Staffan de Mistura is an Italian-Swedish diplomat, United Nations official and former member of the Italian government.
Hans Corell
Diplomat and UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs · United Nations
Hans Axel Valdemar Corell is a Swedish lawyer and diplomat. Between March 1994 and March 2004 he was Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations. In this capacity, he was head of the Office of Legal Affairs in the United Nations Secretariat.
Pierre Schori
Diplomat, minister, and UN representative · Swedish diplomacy
Jean-Pierre Olov Schori is a Swedish diplomat and politician. For many years he was international secretary in the Swedish Social Democratic Party and a close assistant to the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Carl Bildt
Foreign minister and international peace negotiator · European diplomacy
Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and as leader of the Moderate Party (M) from 1986 to 1999. He served twice as Leader of the Opposition.
Margot Wallström
Foreign minister and UN special representative · Swedish foreign policy
Margot Elisabeth Wallström is a Swedish politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2019 and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2016 to 2019.
Anna Lindh
Foreign minister and international advocate · Swedish foreign policy
Ylva Anna Maria Lindh was a Swedish politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003.
Östen Undén
Long-serving foreign minister and diplomat · Swedish foreign policy
Bo Östen Undén was a Swedish statesman, academic, and diplomat who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1945 to 1962. He briefly acted as Prime Minister of Sweden following the death of Per Albin Hansson in October 1946.
Kerstin Hesselgren
Swedish delegate and international social-policy advocate · League of Nations
Kerstin Hesselgren was a Swedish politician. Hesselgren became the first woman to be elected into the Upper House of the Swedish Parliament after female suffrage was introduced in 1921. She was elected by suggestion of the Liberals with support from the Social democrats.