Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter
Photo: Johan Ödmann

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Karin Olofsdotter entered the Foreign Service in 1994. Earlier she served as  Chief of Staff to the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and as Director of the  Ministers Office in Stockholm.

She was posted in Washington DC as Deputy Chief of Mission in September 2008. Her responsibility was to oversee and coordinate the work of Embassy. Karin Olofsdotter has also been posted to the Swedish EU-representation in Brussels,  Belgium where she worked on European security policy and defence issues. She was  chairman of the EU Political-Military Group during the Swedish Presidency of the  EU in 2001. Prior to this she worked at the Swedish delegation to NATO where she was representing Sweden in the working groups of WEU (Western European Union). She was previously posted in Moscow, Russia where she was mainly responsible for  covering Belarus.

Karin Olofsdotter has a B.A in psychology, economics and Russian. She has studied  at UCLA Anderson School of Management. She speaks Russian, French and English.

Karin Olofsdotter is married, and has a son and a daughter.