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Ambassador Rolf Ekeus
Since 2001, Ambassador Rolf Ekeus has served as High Commissioner on
National Minorities for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
He has held a number of diplomatic posts, including Swedish Ambassador
to the United States from 1997 to 2000 and head of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq.
In October 2000, the Swedish government appointed him as a special commissioner and asked him to carry out two delicate investigations. One was to analyze and assess Sweden's security policy during the Cold War. The second was to investigate the political and military handling of foreign submarine intrusions into Swedish territorial waters from 1980 until the present.
Ambassador Ekeus has spent the last two decades working on international nonproliferation issues. From 1991 to 1997 he served as
Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq. In that post,
he was responsible for work to eliminate the Iraqi infrastructure for nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. He also served as
Ambassador and Head of the Swedish delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and as
Chairman on the Chemical Weapons Convention. He was a Member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Canberra Commission on Nuclear Weapons and the Tokyo Forum on Disarmament.
His work in this field was recognized by the Waterler Peace Price from the Carnegie Foundation in 1997.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
