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The Embassy of Sweden in Berlin |
Contact
Address: Rauchstraße 1, Berlin, D-10787
Tel: +49 (0)30 50 50 60
Fax: +49 (0)30 50 50 67 89
Email: ambassaden.berlin@gov.se
www.swedenabroad.se/sv/utlandsmyndigheter/tyskland-berlin/om-oss/
The Ambassador
Veronika Wand-Danielsson
H.E. Veronika Wand-Danielsson is a seasoned Swedish diplomat. Since September 2023, she has been serving as the Ambassador of Sweden to Germany. With a distinguished career in diplomacy, she has held key positions representing Sweden at the bilateral and multilateral levels, including in France, at NATO, and the European Union.
Ambassador Wand-Danielsson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Uppsala University, a Certificat d'Études Politiques from Sciences Po Paris, and pursued PhD studies in International Relations at Stockholm University. She is fluent in Swedish, German, English, French, and proficient in Norwegian and Spanish.
She began her diplomatic career in the early 1990s at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, focusing on multilateral cooperation within the United Nations. From 1993 to 1999, she served at the European Commission in Brussels, coordinating drug control cooperation with African, Caribbean, and Pacific States. She later held senior roles at Sweden’s Permanent Representation to the EU, where she led negotiations on the EU’s long-term budget and worked on foreign and security policy.
From 2007 to 2014, she was Sweden’s Ambassador to NATO, before being appointed Ambassador to France and Monaco from 2014 to 2020. She returned to Stockholm to head the Department for Europe and North America at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where she was responsible for Sweden’s bilateral relations with Europe, the United States, and Canada.
In addition to her diplomatic career, she has been a trustee of Friends of Europe, a Brussels-based think tank, since 2014. Ambassador Wand-Danielsson is married and has two children.
She presented her credentials in Berlin on September 27, 2023.
History
Germany and Sweden have had a long history of cooperation in trade. During the First World War Sweden and Germany had a neutral diplomatic relationship. However during World War II relations between the two cooled significantly, however after the war ended relations between the two improved again.
In the early 1900’s Swedish government bought land for its delegations in Tiergarten. The Nordic Embassies that occupy the space nowadays include four other embassies from Nordic countries. This unique cooperation between five Nordic embassies is exemplary in Berlin. Honorary consuls of Sweden are located in Bremen, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hannover, Kiel, Leipzig, Lübeck-Travemünde, München, Rostock, and Stuttgart.
