List of ambassadors of Sweden to India

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Swedish Embassy, New Delhi

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The Ambassador of Sweden to India (known formally as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Republic of India) is the official representative of the government of Sweden to the president of India and government of India.

History

The first Swedish minister in India, envoy Gunnar Jarring, handed over his letter of credence to the Indian Governor-General C. Rajagopalachari on 9 November 1948.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1948-11-10/4/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Svenske ministern i Indien |trans-title=Swedish minister in India |page=4A |date=1948-11-10 |access-date=10 September 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}}

In August 1956, an agreement was reached between the Swedish and Indian governments on the mutual elevation of the respective countries' legations to embassies. The diplomatic rank was thereafter changed to ambassador instead of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1956-08-21/7/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Tre nya ambassadörer |trans-title=Three new ambassadors |page=A7 |date=1956-08-21 |access-date=13 November 2023 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}}

List of representatives

class="wikitable" !Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Gunnar Jarring	1948–1951	Envoy	Also accredited to Colombo (from 1950).	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1963/0540.html \|editor-last=Burling \|editor-first=Ingeborg \|year=1962 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1963 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1963 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|9649168}} \|page=524}}
Per Wijkman	1951–1955	Envoy	Also accredited to Colombo.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1969/1049.html \|editor-last=Lagerström \|editor-first=Sten \|year=1968 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1969 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1969 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|3681519}} \|page=1033}}
Alva Myrdal	3 December 1955 – 26 October 1956	Envoy	Also accredited to Rangoon (from 22 February 1956) and Colombo (from 21 May 1956).	{{cite encyclopedia \|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=8622 \|publisher=National Archives of Sweden \|encyclopedia=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon \|title=Alva Myrdal \|first=Per \|last=Thullberg \|year=1987–1989 \|volume=26 \|page=161 \|access-date=2023-08-22 \|language=sv}}
Alva Myrdal	27 October 1956 – 1 April 1961	Ambassador	Also accredited to Rangoon and Colombo.
Klas Böök	1961–1965	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo and Kathmandu.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1969/0172.html \|editor-last=Lagerström \|editor-first=Sten \|year=1968 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1969 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1969 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|3681519}} \|page=156}}
Gunnar Heckscher	1965–1970	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo and Kathmandu.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/statskal/1970/0352.html \|title=Sveriges statskalender. 1970 \|editor-first=Bengt \|editor-last=Sköldenberg \|year=1970 \|publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer \|location=Uppsala \|language=sv \|page=352}}
Axel Lewenhaupt	1970–1975	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo and Kathmandu.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/statskal/1972/0354.html \|title=Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1972 \|editor-first=Bengt \|editor-last=Sköldenberg \|year=1972 \|publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|3682755}} \|page=354}}
Lennart Finnmark	1975–1983	Ambassador	Also accredited to Dhaka (1975–1977) as well as Colombo and Kathmandu (1975–1983).	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1993/0328.html \|editor1-last=Uddling \|editor1-first=Hans \|editor2-last=Paabo \|editor2-first=Katrin \|year=1992 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1993 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1993 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|isbn=91-1-914072-X \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|8261513}} \|page=328}}
Torsten Örn	1978–1979	Chargé d'affaires		{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/2001/1270.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=1270}}
Axel Edelstam	1983–1987	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo, Kathmandu, and Thimphu (from 1985).	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59795/gupea_2077_59795_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1987 \|year=1987 \|publisher=Allmänna \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=91-38-09751-6 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682766}} \|pages=348, 355, 361, 366}}
Örjan Berner	1987–1989	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo, Kathmandu, and Thimphu.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1995/0122.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=122}}
Pär Kettis	1989–1994	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo, Kathmandu, and Thimphu.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1995/0592.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=592}}
Karl-Göran Engström	1994–1999	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo, Kathmandu, Malé (from 1995), and Thimphu.	{{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}} \|pages=175, 181, 187, 188, 194}}
Johan Nordenfelt	2000–2004	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo, Kathmandu, Malé, and Thimphu.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59837/gupea_2077_59837_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 2004 \|year=2004 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=91-38-32120-3 \|id={{SELIBR\|89506762}} \|page=175}}
Inga Eriksson Fogh	2004–2006	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo, Kathmandu, Malé, and Thimphu.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59889/gupea_2077_59889_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 2006 \|year=2006 \|publisher=Norstedts Juridik AB/Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=91-38-32230-7 \|id={{SELIBR\|10156707}} \|page=180}}
Lars-Olof Lindgren	2007–2012	Ambassador	Also accredited to Colombo, Kathmandu, Malé, and Thimphu.	{{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}} \|page=182}}
Harald Sandberg	2012–2017	Ambassador		{{cite web \|url=http://www.swedenabroad.com/en-GB/Embassies/New-Delhi/Current-affairs/News/New-Ambassador-at-the-embassy-in-New-Delhi--sys/ \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116210234/http://www.swedenabroad.com/en-GB/Embassies/New-Delhi/Current-affairs/News/New-Ambassador-at-the-embassy-in-New-Delhi--sys/ \|publisher=Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi \|title=New Ambassador at the Embassy in New Delhi \|date=14 July 2012 \|archive-date=16 January 2016 \|access-date=23 July 2024}}
Klas Molin	September 2017 – 2022	Ambassador		{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2017/08/ny-ambassador-i-indien/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Ny ambassadör i Indien \|trans-title=New ambassador in India \|date=24 August 2017 \|access-date=23 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Jan Thesleff	2022–present	Ambassador		{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2022/02/jan-thesleff-ny-ambassador-i-indien/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Jan Thesleff ny ambassadör i Indien \|trans-title=Jan Thesleff new ambassador in India \|date=10 February 2022 \|access-date=23 July 2024 \|language=sv}}

Gallery

File:Lindström Myrdal.jpg|Ambassador Alva Myrdal (1955–1961) and Sune Lindström.

File:The Ambassador of Sweden to India, Mr. Lars Olof Lindgren presented his credentials to the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on March 13, 2007.jpg|Ambassador Lars-Olof Lindgren (2007–2012) and President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

File:The Ambassador- designate of Sweden, Mr. Harald Sandberg presented his credential to the President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on July 13, 2012.jpg|Ambassador Harald Sandberg (2012–2017) and President Pratibha Patil.

File:The Ambassador - Designate of Sweden, Mr. Klas Molin presenting his credentials to the President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on November 23, 2017.jpg|Ambassador Klas Molin (2017–2022) and President Ram Nath Kovind.

Footnotes

References

External links

{{Official website|https://www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassies/india-new-delhi/|Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi}} {{lang in|sv|en}}

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