The Ambassador

Paul Beijer is a career foreign service official, currently Sweden’s Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria.

From 2005-2008 he held the position of Ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Special Advisor to the Swedish Government on Korean Peninsula Issues.

From 2001-2005 he served in Pyongyang as Swedish Ambassador to the DPRK.

From 1998-2001 he was Director of Strategic Export Controls in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and as such represented Sweden in the different non-proliferation regimes and in other international export control fora. He was Sweden’s lead negotiator in the six-nation LOI effort to develop a mechanism for common export control assessments among leading EU Defence Industry nations (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK), and has chaired the Export Control Policy group within the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) mechanism.

From 1992-98 he worked in various capacities in the export control sector, i.a. as Senior Policy Advisor at the then newly created National Inspectorate for Strategic Products.

1989-92 he was one of Sweden’s negotiators in the GATT Uruguay Round. He has also served in Angola (1984-87). at Sweden’s mission to the OECD in Paris (1987-88), and as desk officer for the OECD at the Ministry in Stockholm (1988-89).

Ambassador Beijer has a degree in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has been a Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.