Ambassadors Series: The Delegation of the EU to the UN

  • June 17, 2020
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (CEST)
  • Online Event
  • 24

Registration


YPFP Brussels is delighted to invite you to our online Ambassador Series with His Excellency, Ambassador Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations in New York. Ambassador Skoog is one of the world’s most experienced career diplomats having spent most of his diplomatic career in foreign postings, from Colombia to Belgium to Indonesia, covering a wide range of topics from human rights to security to development cooperation. 

Don’t miss the chance to learn more about the world’s multilateral organization per excellence and the role of the EU Delegation in New York. 

Please note that the event is limited to thirty participants and for members-only. 

Zoom link will follow after registration. For more details please contact: Franziska Krüger, Ambassador Series Officer, at franziska.krueger@ypfp.org.


Ambassador Skoog:

Before his latest appointment, Ambassador Skoog served as the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations from 2015 to 2019.  He was previously the European Union’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from 2013 to 2015, overseeing development cooperation.

Prior to that posting, Ambassador Skoog was the first Permanent Chair of the European Union Political and Security Committee from 2011 until 2013.  He served as his country’s Permanent Representative to the European Union between 2007 and 2011, having previously been Director-General for Political Affairs in Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2004 until 2007.

Ambassador Skoog’s foreign postings also included service as Ambassador to Colombia from 2001 until 2004, accredited concurrently to Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador.  Beginning his diplomatic career in 1989 as Second Secretary at his country’s embassy in Cuba, he was responsible for political reporting, human rights, press and information, and held the position until 1992, when he joined Sweden’s Permanent Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the same capacity.

The holder of a Master of Laws degree from Lund University Institute of Law in Sweden, Ambassador Skoog previously studied at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for International Law and undertook advanced studies at the European Commission on Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

He is married and has three children.