Annika Söder

[1] In February 2020, she was appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to collaborate with a UN group on peace building[2] and in January 2021, she was engaged by OSCE chair Ann Linde as her special representative for the South Caucasus.

[5] From 1974 to 1976, she attended the Stockholm School of Journalism, specializing in French language and law at the university level.

Over the years, she has had responsibilities as a spokesperson for the ministry and has held positions on security policy and EU and UN issues.

[3] After a period as executive director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, from 2014 to 2019 she was state secretary for foreign affairs,[7] where she coordinated work on conflict resolution in connection with North Korea, Venezuela, and Yemen.

[3] In February 2020, Söder was appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to collaborate with a UN group on peace building[2] and in January 2021, she was engaged by OSCE chair Ann Linde as her special representative for the South Caucasus.