List of ambassadors of Sweden to Guinea

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The Ambassador of Sweden to Guinea (known formally as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Republic of Guinea) is the official representative of the government of Sweden to the president of Guinea and government of Guinea. The ambassador is based in Stockholm and travels regularly to Guinea.

History

On 30 October 1958, Sweden recognized the Republic of Guinea (formerly French Guinea). The announcement of the recognition was delivered in a telegram from Acting Foreign Minister, Cabinet Minister Herman Kling, to the government of Guinea.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1958-10-31/10/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Svenska regeringen har erkänt Guinea |trans-title=The Swedish government has recognized Guinea |page=10A |date=1958-10-31 |access-date=17 April 2025 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}}

In January 1961, Sweden planned to establish three new diplomatic missions in Africa, including an independent mission in Liberia.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1961-01-12/11/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Intensifierad UD-aktivitet |trans-title=Intensified Foreign Ministry activity |page=A11 |date=1961-01-12 |access-date=21 July 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} The proposed mission in Monrovia was intended to serve not only Liberia but also Ghana, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. A delegation recommended setting up at least two missions in West Africa, prioritizing Monrovia and Lagos. Additionally, a third mission was suggested for one of the French-speaking West African republics, such as Dakar or Abidjan. Until further expansions, the head of the Monrovia mission was to be accredited to some former French republics. These proposals were part of Sweden's efforts to strengthen economic ties and were reflected in that year's budget proposal.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1961-01-20/5/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Flera Afrikastater vill ha ökade Sverigeförbindelser |trans-title=Several African states want increased ties with Sweden |page=A5 |date=1961-01-20 |access-date=21 July 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} In August 1961, {{ill|Torsten Brandel|sv}} was appointed as Sweden's first resident ambassador in Monrovia. He was also accredited as ambassador to certain neighboring countries, including Guinea.{{cite news |url=https://static.bonniernews.se/gcs/arkivet/1961/08/bib13991099_19610817_11165_221_499817/bib13991099_19610817_11165_221_0008-4712x6515.jpeg |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |title=Mångsysslare |trans-title=Multitasker |page=8A |date=1961-08-17 |access-date=12 December 2024 |language=sv}}

The Swedish ambassador accredited to Guinea was based in Stockholm in the late 1970s, following the downgrading of the embassy in Monrovia. In 2000, Sweden opened an embassy in Dakar, Senegal, and the ambassador there was subsequently accredited to Guinea. The embassy closed 10 years later, and the ambassador to Guinea was once again based in Stockholm.

List of representatives

Name\|\|Period\|\|Title\|\|Notes\|\|Ref
class="wikitable"
Torsten Brandel	1961–1962	Ambassador	Resident in Monrovia.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/63726/gupea_2077_63726_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1962 \|year=1962 \|publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer \|location=Uppsala \|language=sv \|pages=300, 302}}
Bo Järnstedt	1962{{efn\|The Sveriges statskalender (1964), pp. 310-311, lists the year as 1963. However, Dagens Nyheter reported in March 1962 that Bo Järnstedt had already presented his credentials to President William Tubman in Monrovia.{{cite news \|url=https://static.bonniernews.se/gcs/arkivet/1962/03/bib13991099_19620315_11166_72_500026/bib13991099_19620315_11166_72_0015-4760x6518.jpeg \|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter \|title=Sveriges nye ambassadör i Liberia \|trans-title=Sweden's new ambassador to Liberia \|page=A15 \|date=1962-03-15 \|access-date=12 December 2024 \|language=sv}} Vem är det ("Who's Who") (1984), p. 571, also states the year as 1962.{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/0571.html \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1985 \|year=1984 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|language=sv \|isbn=91-1-843222-0 \|id={{SELIBR\|3681527}} \|page=571}} Svenska Dagbladet reported in May 1962 that Ambassador Bo Järnstedt, "who is Sweden's envoy in Monrovia, Accra, Conakry and Freetown" has been appointed ambassador also in Abidjan.{{cite news \|url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1962-05-19/11/SVD \|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet \|title=Ambassadörerna \|trans-title=The ambassadors \|page=A11 \|date=1962-05-19 \|access-date=15 April 2025 \|language=sv \|url-access=subscription}}}}–1964	Ambassador	Resident in Monrovia.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/65480/gupea_2077_65480_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|title=Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1964 \|year=1964 \|publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer \|location=Uppsala \|language=sv \|pages=310–311}}
Olof Ripa	1964–1968	Ambassador	Resident in Monrovia.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/65026/gupea_2077_65026_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|title=Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1968 \|year=1968 \|publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer \|location=Uppsala \|language=sv \|pages=317, 319}}
\|Hans-Efraim Sköld	1969–1972	Ambassador	Resident in Monrovia.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1995/1015.html \|editor1-last=Uddling \|editor1-first=Hans \|editor2-last=Paabo \|editor2-first=Katrin \|year=1994 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1995 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1995 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|isbn=91-1-943202-X \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|8261514}} \|page=1015}}
Bengt Friedman	1973–1976	Ambassador	Resident in Monrovia.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1995/0352.html \|editor1-last=Uddling \|editor1-first=Hans \|editor2-last=Paabo \|editor2-first=Katrin \|year=1994 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1995 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1995 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|isbn=91-1-943202-X \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|8261514}} \|page=352}}
Olof Skoglund	1976–1977	Ambassador	Resident in Monrovia.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1995/1013.html \|editor1-last=Uddling \|editor1-first=Hans \|editor2-last=Paabo \|editor2-first=Katrin \|year=1994 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1995 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1995 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|isbn=91-1-943202-X \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|8261514}} \|page=1013}}
Cai Melin	1979–1983	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/0778.html \|editor-last=Salander Mortensen \|editor-first=Jill \|year=1996 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1997 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1997 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|isbn=91-1-960852-7 \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|3681533}} \|page=778}}
Erik Cornell	1983–1988	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/2001/0215.html \|editor-last=Jönsson \|editor-first=Lena \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 2001 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 2001 \|year=2000 \|publisher=Norstedt \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=9172850426 \|id={{SELIBR\|8261515}} \|page=215}}
Bengt Holmquist	1989–1992	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59882/gupea_2077_59882_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1992 \|year=1992 \|publisher=Allmänna \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=913812694X \|id={{SELIBR\|3682771}} \|page=355}}
Magnus Faxén	1993–1995	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59887/gupea_2077_59887_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Almqvist \|editor-first=Gerd \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1995 \|year=1995 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=91-38-30428-7 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682775}} \|pages=179}}
Carl-Erhard Lindahl	1995–1996	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59830/gupea_2077_59830_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Almqvist \|editor-first=Gerd \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1996 \|year=1996 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=9138350211 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682781}} \|pages=76, 183}}
Nils-Erik Schyberg	1997–1998	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59832/gupea_2077_59832_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1998 \|year=1998 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=9138313111 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682777}} \|page=179}}
–	1999–2000	Ambassador	Vacant.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59833/gupea_2077_59833_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1999 \|year=1999 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=91-38-31445-2 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682778}} \|page=181}}{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59824/gupea_2077_59824_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 2000 \|year=2000 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=91-38-31692-7 \|id={{SELIBR\|8261600}} \|page=177}}
Bo Wilén	2000–2002	Ambassador	Resident in Dakar.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59835/gupea_2077_59835_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 2002 \|year=2002 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=9138319519 \|id={{SELIBR\|8428312}} \|pages=181, 192}}
Annika Magnusson	2002–2005	Ambassador	Resident in Dakar.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59888/gupea_2077_59888_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 2005 \|year=2005 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=9138321971 \|id={{SELIBR\|9879458}} \|pages=176, 189}}
Agneta Bohman	2006–2010	Ambassador	Resident in Dakar.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59894/gupea_2077_59894_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|title=Sveriges statskalender 2010 \|year=2010 \|publisher=Norstedts Juridik AB/Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=978-91-38-32520-9 \|id={{SELIBR\|11846164}} \|pages=181, 196}}
Per Carlson	2011–2017	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm. Presented credentials on 9 September 2011.	{{cite web \|url=https://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201109120509.html \|work=allAfrica \|title=Guinée: Balais diplomatique à Sékoutouréya - Les ambassadeurs d'Allemagne, du Pakistan,d'Australie, de la Suède et de la Guinée Equatoriale ont présenté leurs lettres de créance au Chef de l'Etat \|trans-title=Guinea: Diplomatic Brooms in Sékoutouréya - The ambassadors of Germany, Pakistan, Australia, Sweden and Equatorial Guinea presented their credentials to the Head of State \|first=Abdallah \|last=Balde \|date=11 September 2011 \|access-date=15 February 2025 \|language=fr \|quote=Ce vendredi 9 septembre 2011, le Chef de l'Etat, le Pr Alpha Condé a ... Per Carlson du Royaume de Suède, M. William Billy Williams d . \|trans-quote=This Friday, September 9, 2011, the Head of State, Professor Alpha Condé ... Per Carlson of the Kingdom of Sweden, Mr. William Billy Williams of . \|url-access=subscription}}
Maria Leissner	2017–2021	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite web \|url=https://fba.se/en/areas-of-expertise/dialogue-mediation/swedish-womens-mediation-network/maria-leissner/ \|publisher=Folke Bernadotte Academy \|title=Maria Leissner \|access-date=23 April 2025 \|quote=She was Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea and Senegal 2017 – 2021}}
Mia Rimby	2021–present	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2021/06/ny-ambassador-i-guinea/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Ny ambassadör i Guinea \|trans-title=New ambassador in Guinea \|date=17 June 2021 \|access-date=15 April 2025 \|language=sv}}

Footnotes

References

External links

{{Official website|https://www.swedenabroad.se/sv/utlandsmyndigheter/guinea-stockholm/|Sweden Abroad, Guinea}} {{lang in|sv|en}}

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