Rolf Ekeus  

Born in 1935, Kristinehamn, Sweden.

Law Degree from Stockholm University 1959. Law practice County Court Karlstad. Swedish Defense College 1982-1983.

Career:
1962 - 1983 - Member of the Swedish Foreign Service with postings in Bonn, Nairobi, New York (UN) and the Hague.
1983 - 1988 - Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the Conference on Disarma-ment, CD, Geneva, Chairman CD-negotiations on the Chemical Weapons Convention, 1984 and 1987.
1990 - 1991 - Chairman Committee on principles Charter of Paris.
1988 - 1992 - Ambassador and Head of the Swedish Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
1991-1997 - Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, UNSCOM.
1997 - 2000 - Ambassador of Sweden to the United States.
1998 - 2003 - Member Advisory Board on Disarmament of the Secretary General of the United Nations.
2000 - 2003 - Special Governmental Commissioner to the Swedish Government, assessing Sweden's security policy during the Cold War.
2000 - 2002 - Special Governmental Commissioner to the Swedish Government, investigating the water of foreign submarine intrusions into Swedish territorial waters from 1980.
From 1 July 2002 - Chairman of the Governing Board SIPRI, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
2001-2007 - High Commissioner on National Minorities appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Other activities:
Member Board of Directors of NTI (Turner / Nunn), Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, since 2001. Member Board Axel and Margaret Ax-son Johnson Foundation, since 2001. Chairman Swedish Pugwash 2005. Member Royal Academy of the War Science, Stockholm. Member Advisory Board of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Center, Monterey Institute since 1997. Member Canberra Commission on Nuclear Weapons 1995 - 1996 and Tokyo Forum on Disarmament since 1998.

Married to Christina K.Oldfeldt-Ekéus.