NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SWEDEN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Hans Dahlgren, the new Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, since 2001, Mr. Dahlgren had been serving as Special Representative of the Presidency of the European Union for the Mano River Union countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – and co-Chair of the International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin. In parallel, from 2000 to 2006, he was State Secretary at Sweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, serving as deputy to three foreign ministers. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Dahlgren was the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations in New York. Earlier, in 1999 and 2000, he was the Vice Chairman of the General Assembly Working Group on Reform of the Security Council, and during 1997 and 1998 he served as Sweden's representative on the United Nations Security Council.

After four years as a political correspondent for Swedish Television, Mr. Dahlgren began his diplomatic career in 1975, as special assistant to Foreign Minister Sven Andersson. Notably, from 1977 to 1983 he was the press secretary to Olof Palme, and from 1983 to 1991 served as Ambassador at the Swedish Prime Minister's office and as foreign policy adviser to Prime Ministers Olof Palme and Ingvar Carlsson. This is Mr. Dahlgren's second posting to Geneva; from 1992 to 1994 he was the Secretary-General of the Commission on Global Governance, and head of its international secretariat here.

Mr. Dahlgren graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1971.

Born on 16 March 1948, Mr. Dahlgren is married with four children.