Annika Söder
Annika Söder supports the Institute as Senior Advisor since 2023. She was previously President of the Board of Governors from 2019 to 2023. In 2021 she was OSCE representative to South Caucasus and The Geneva International Discussions. She served as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Sweden between 2014 and 2019.
Before that she was Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation working on UN policy matters. She has also been a senior manager and ADG of the UN FAO, responsible for external relations, partnerships, interagency affairs and communications. Previously, she served as State Secretary for International Development Cooperation in the Swedish Government and as spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, and in several positions as foreign policy advisor to the prime minister and foreign ministers.