Curriculum Vitae

Ambassador Hans Dahlgren is currently Sweden’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations office and other international organisations in Geneva.  He is also representing Sweden at the Conference on Disarmament.

He arrived in Geneva in 2007, after more than six years as State Secretary at Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, acting as deputy to three foreign ministers (2000-2006).

As Special Representative for the Mano River Union countries, Hans Dahlgren served thirteen consecutive EU Presidencies between 2001 and 2007, and was co-chair of the International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin.

From 1997 until 2000, he was Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations in New York, and represented his country on the Security Council 1997 and 1998.

Hans Dahlgren was President of the UN Security Council in September 1998, and chaired the Security Council sanctions committee on Sierra Leone in 1997 and 1998.  After that, he was vice-chairman of the UN General Assembly’s working group on reforming the Security Council.

From 1994 until 1997, he was State Secretary at the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office, serving as head of government services under Prime Ministers Ingvar Carlsson and Göran Persson.

Hans Dahlgren was Secretary General of the Commission on Global Governance, and headed its international secretariat in Geneva between 1992 and 1994.

For eight years, 1983-1991, he served as foreign policy advisor to Prime Ministers Olof Palme and Ingvar Carlsson.

Between 1977 and 1983 he was press secretary to Olof Palme, first in his position as Leader of the Opposition and thereafter as Prime Minister.  During two preceding years, he worked as special assistant to Foreign Minister Sven Andersson.

From 1970 until 1974, Hans Dahlgren was political correspondent at Swedish Television Channel One news program “Aktuellt”.

Hans Dahlgren is a 1971 graduate from the Stockholm School of Economics.  He was president of the Swedish Student Union in 1967-68.

He was born in Uppsala, Sweden, on 16 March 1948.  He has four children and is married to Eva Stenström Dahlgren, a reporter with Swedish Broadcasting.