H.E. Annika Ben David

Ambassador of Sweden to the Republic of Serbia

H.E. Annika Ben David

Ambassador of Sweden to the Republic of Serbia

Biography

Ms Annika Mariana Elisabet Rachel BEN DAVID

Date and place of birth

30 April 1967 in Uppsala, Sweden

Civil status Divorced, two children
Education Diplôme d’Études Supérieures en Relations Internationales, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland 1995
Master’s degree in Political Science, Uppsala, 1992 (incl one year at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Professional experience Ambassador designate to Serbia and Montenegro, September 2021-

Ambassador at large for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (Stockholm), September 2016-August 2021

Ambassador of Sweden to the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2013-2016

Head of Section Central, Eastern and Southern Africa, Africa Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs 2010-2013

Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Sweden, Tel Aviv, Israel 2006-2010

Counsellor, Department for Human Rights, International Law and Treaty Law, Ministry for Foreign Affairs 2005-2006

First Secretary (Political, Economics, Trade), Embassy of Sweden in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2000-2004

Second Secretary (Political, Consular and Cultural), Embassy of Sweden, Tel Aviv, Israel 1997-2000

Diplomatic training, 1996-1997

Desk Officer, Department for Political Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1995-1996

Associate Protection Officer, UNHCR Regional Office for the Baltic and Nordic countries 1995

 Languages

Associate Protection Officer, UNHCR, Middle Eastern and South West Asia Bureau 1994-1995

Fluent in French and English, some Hebrew, German 

and Yiddish

Beginner’s Serbian