Ambassador Olof Skoog is the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations since March 2015.

Ambassador Skoog is a Swedish diplomat with extensive experience from a number of top positions worldwide. He has been Director-General for Political Affairs and has represented Sweden at the United Nations, at the European Union, and at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He has been Swedish Ambassador to Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama. He also served as Executive Assistant to Dr. Hans Blix in the UN verification of WMD in Iraq.

Ambassador Skoog was most recently posted as the EU Ambassador to Indonesia and Brunei, also representing the EU to ASEAN. Prior to this, he served as the first Permanent Chair of the EU Political and Security Committee, coordinating the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy and establishing close partnerships with the UN and the AU.

Ambassador Skoog serves as the Chairman of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission.

Ambassador Skoog was born 1962. He is married to Johanna Brismar, currently Sweden’s Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste. They have three children.

Contact Information

Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
885 2nd Ave., 46th fl.
New York, NY 10017

Phone: (212) 583-2500
Fax: (212) 583-2549

Email: sweden@un.int 
Website: http://www.swedenabroad.com/Start____11036.aspx