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The Ambassador

Curriculum Vitae of Ambassador Hans Magnusson.

Born: September 29, 1947 at Frösö, Sweden.
Married, two children.

1971 Bachelor of Arts, Lund University; International Affairs, Political Economy, Cultural Geography, Russian, Spanish
1971 Entered the Foreign Service
1974 – 1977 First Secretary Embassy in Brasilia
1977 – 1979 First Secretary Swedish delegation Geneva
1979 – 1984 Foreign Ministry, Sweden
1984 – 1988 Counsellor, Embassy in Belgrade
1988 – 1992 Minister, Embassy in Moscow
1992 – 1996
 Foreign Ministry, Stockholm
1996 – 2000
 Ambassador in Riga, Latvia
1991 – 2001
 Co-chairman of the Swedish-Russian working group on Raoul Wallenberg
2000 – 2005
 Deputy Director General, Head of Department for Central and Eastern Europe

Publications: Co-author; Soviet Foreign Policy, 1970, articles

Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croat
3 Crowns