List of ambassadors of Sweden to Iraq

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| incumbent = Jörgen Lindström
Special Envoy

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Swedish Embassy, Baghdad

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

History

From 1934 to 1936, the Swedish minister in Moscow, Soviet Union held a dual accreditation to Baghdad, and from 1936 the Swedish minister in Tehran held a dual accreditation to Baghdad.

In February 1960, the envoy was appointed ambassador there after an agreement with the Iraqi government regarding diplomatic representation. The ambassador remained accredited from Tehran, but a legation office was opened in Baghdad, headed by a first secretary from March of the same year.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1960-02-23/12/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Ambassadör i Bagdad |trans-title=Ambassador in Baghdad |page=12A |date=1960-02-23 |access-date=22 July 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} In May 1964, Bengt Odhner was appointed as Sweden's first resident ambassador in Baghdad.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1964-05-30/6/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=UD-utnämningar i konseljen |trans-title=Cabinet appointments at the council |page=6A |date=1964-05-30 |access-date=22 July 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}}

The ambassador has been based in Stockholm since the storming of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in the summer of 2023.

List of representatives

Name\|\|Period\|\|Title\|\|Notes\|\|Ref
class="wikitable"
Eric Gyllenstierna	18 May 1934 – 1936	Envoy	Resident in Moscow.	{{cite web \|url=https://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Gyllenstierna_af_Lundholm_nr_3#TAB_26 \|publisher=Adelsvapen \|website=www.adelsvapen.com \|title=TAB 26 \|access-date=10 February 2017 \|language=sv}}
Hugo von Heidenstam	1936–1942	Envoy	Resident in Tehran.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm45/0318.html \|editor1-last=Harnesk \|editor1-first=Paul \|date=1945 \|title=Vem är vem? \|volume=D. 1, Stockholmsdelen \|trans-title=Who's Who? \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Vem är vem bokförlag \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|8198269}} \|page=302}}
Harald Pousette	1941–1945	Chargé d'affaires ad interim	Resident in Tehran.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/63364/gupea_2077_63364_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|title=Sveriges statskalender för året 1945 \|year=1945 \|publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer \|location=Uppsala \|language=sv \|page=265}}
Gunnar Jarring	1945–1945	Chargé d'affaires ad interim	Resident in Tehran.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/0553.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=553}}
Harald Pousette	1945–1947	Envoy	Resident in Tehran.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/64326/gupea_2077_64326_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|title=Sveriges statskalender för året 1947 \|year=1947 \|publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer \|location=Uppsala \|language=sv \|page=278}}
Harry Eriksson	1948–1951	Envoy	Resident in Tehran.	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1957/0289.html \|editor-last=Burling \|editor-first=Ingeborg \|year=1956 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1957 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1957 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|language=sv \|page=265}}
Gunnar Jarring	1951–1952	Envoy	Resident in Tehran.
Ragnvald Bagge	1953–1959	Envoy	Resident in Tehran.	{{cite book \|date=1984 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1985 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|language=sv \|isbn=91-1-843222-0 \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/0081.html \|page=81}}
Dick Hichens-Bergström	1959–1960	Envoy	Resident in Tehran.	{{cite book \|date=1984 \|title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1985 \|trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1985 \|location=Stockholm \|publisher=Norstedt \|language=sv \|isbn=91-1-843222-0 \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/0482.html \|page=482}}
Dick Hichens-Bergström	1960–1963	Ambassador	Resident in Tehran.
Carl Johan Rappe	1961–1962	Chargé d'affaires ad interim		{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1993/0909.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=909}}
Bengt Odhner	1964–1969	Ambassador	Also accredited to Kuwait City (from 1965).	{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1985/0846.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=846}}
Gunnar Gerring	1969–1973	Ambassador	Also accredited to Kuwait City.	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59464/gupea_2077_59464_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Sköldenberg \|editor-first=Bengt \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1973 \|year=1973 \|publisher=Almqvist & Wiksell \|location=Uppsala \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|3682755}} \|pages=354-355}}
Otto Rathsman	1973–1975	Ambassador		{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59465/gupea_2077_59465_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Sköldenberg \|editor-first=Bengt \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1975 \|year=1975 \|publisher=Liber/Allmänna \|location=Uppsala \|isbn=91-38-02088-2 \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|3682757}} \|page=408}}
Fredrik Bergenstråhle	1975–1979	Ambassador		{{cite book \|url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1993/0172.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=172}}
Lars-Olof Brilioth	1979–1982	Ambassador		{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59728/gupea_2077_59728_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Sköldenberg \|editor-first=Bengt \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1982 \|year=1982 \|publisher=Liber/Allmänna \|location=Stockholm \|isbn=9138067307 \|language=sv \|id={{SELIBR\|3682763}} \|page=363}}
Arne Thorén	1983–1988	Ambassador		{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59826/gupea_2077_59826_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Spiegelberg \|editor-first=Christina \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1988 \|year=1988 \|publisher=Allmänna \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=91-38-09927-6 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682767}} \|page=363}}
Henrik Amnéus	1988–1993	Ambassador	Left Iraq in mid-January 1991.	{{cite news \|url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1991-01-18/9/SVD \|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet \|title=Amnéus reser hem \|agency=TT \|page=9 \|date=1991-01-18 \|access-date=27 July 2023 \|language=sv \|url-access=subscription}}{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59883/gupea_2077_59883_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Almqvist \|editor-first=Gerd \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1993 \|year=1993 \|publisher=Allmänna \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=9138128098 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682772}} \|page=347}}
Torkel Stiernlöf	July 1990 – August 1990	Chargé d'affaires		{{cite news \|url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1990-09-03/6/SVD \|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet \|title="Hoppas att våra män nu också får resa hem" \|first=Stefan \|last=Koskinen \|page=6 \|date=1990-09-03 \|access-date=27 July 2023 \|language=sv \|url-access=subscription}}
–	1994–2004	–	Vacant	{{cite book \|url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59886/gupea_2077_59886_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y \|editor-last=Almqvist \|editor-first=Gerd \|title=Sveriges statskalender 1994 \|year=1994 \|publisher=Fritzes \|location=Stockholm \|language=sv \|isbn=9138129485 \|id={{SELIBR\|3682773}} \|page=180}}{{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}}
Karin Roxman	2004–2006	Ambassador	Resident in Amman.	{{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}}
Niclas Trouvé	2006–2010	Ambassador	Resident in Amman.{{efn\|After the new embassy was opened in 2009, ambassador Trouvé was resident in Baghdad.}}	{{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=183}}
Carl Magnus Nesser	2010–2012	Ambassador		{{cite press release \|url=http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/13350/a/149902 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012040623/http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/13350/a/149902 \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Regeringen utser fyra nya ambassadörer och en generalkonsul \|trans-title=The government appoints four new ambassadors and one consul general \|date=22 July 2010 \|archive-date=12 October 2014 \|access-date=17 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Jörgen Lindström	2012–2015	Ambassador		{{cite news \|url=https://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/nya-ambassadorer-utsedda.b10eacf0-dbce-4cda-b41f-76e4fb882ccd \|newspaper=Göteborgs-Posten \|title=Nya ambassadörer utsedda \|trans-title=New ambassadors appointed \|agency=TT-TT Spektra \|date=24 May 2012 \|access-date=22 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Annika Molin Hellgren	2015–2017	Ambassador		{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2015/04/ny-ambassador-i-irak/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Ny ambassadör i Irak \|trans-title=New ambassador in Iraq \|date=1 April 2015 \|access-date=22 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Pontus Melander	1 September 2017 – 2019	Ambassador		{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2017/06/ny-ambassador-i-irak-2017/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Ny ambassadör i Irak \|trans-title=New ambassador in Iraq \|date=22 June 2017 \|access-date=22 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Lars Ronnås	1 September 2019 – 2021	Ambassador		{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2019/05/ny-ambassador-i-irak/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Ny ambassadör i Irak \|trans-title=New ambassador in Iraq \|date=16 May 2019 \|access-date=22 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Jonas Lovén	2021–2022	Ambassador		{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2021/04/ny-ambassador-i-irak/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Ny ambassadör i Irak \|trans-title=New ambassador in Iraq \|date=1 April 2021 \|access-date=22 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Jessica Svärdström	August 2022 – 2024	Ambassador	Resident in Stockholm (from 2023).	{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2022/06/jessica-svardstrom-ny-ambassador-i-irak/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Jessica Svärdström ny ambassadör i Irak \|trans-title=Jessica Svärdström new ambassador in Iraq \|date=16 June 2022 \|access-date=22 July 2024 \|language=sv}}
Jörgen Lindström	December 2024 – present	Special Envoy	Resident in Stockholm.	{{cite press release \|url=https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2024/11/nytt-sarskilt-sandebud-for-irak/ \|publisher=Ministry for Foreign Affairs \|title=Nytt särskilt sändebud för Irak i Irak \|trans-title=New Special Envoy to Iraq \|date=28 November 2024 \|access-date=4 December 2024 \|language=sv}}

Footnotes

References

External links

{{Official website|https://www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassies/iraq-baghdad/|Embassy of Sweden, Baghdad}} {{lang in|sv|en}}

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