Carl Henrik Sihver Liljegren (born 17 April 1936) is a Swedish diplomat and author.
In the early 1950s, he moved to the United States where his stepfather, Mårten Liljegren, was cultural attaché in Washington, D.C.. Henrik Liljegren went to St. Albans School for a year before trying farm work one summer in Ohio as a sixteen-year-old.
[1] Liljegren served as ambassador in Ankara from 1981 to 1985, in East Berlin from 1985 to 1989, in Brussels from 1989 to 1992 and in Washington D.C. from 1993 to 1997.
[1] Between 1997 and 1998 he was the consul general in Istanbul and from 1998 until his retirement in 2001 he again served as ambassador to Turkey in Ankara.
He is the author of From Tallinn to Turkey - as a Swede and Diplomat[3] and he is a lifetime director of the Atlantic Council.