Letter

CV Deputy Director-General Sigrún Rawet

Swedish diplomat with more than 25 years of experience.

Married, a son, a daughter and two stepdaughters.

Deputy Director-General, Head of the Department for Multilateral Development Banks, Sustainability and Climate at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, August 2020- present

Alternate governor of the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Interamerican Development Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD. Responsible for Swedish international climate finance, green transition, climate and security, food security, sustainable development, development finance and support to the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environment Facility.

Deputy Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI, 2018-2020

SIPRI is an international, independent peace research institute founded by the Swedish Parliament in 1966. Worked on disarmament, new technologies, security policy and strong focus on Korea, China and the Middle-East.

Head of the Economic, Development and Humanitarian Section, Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in New York, 2015-2018

Posted while Sweden had a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council. Sat on the board of Unicef, UNDP, Un Women and UNFPA.

Head of the Conflict Division, Department for Security Policy, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2011-2015

Minister’s office, Policy advisor and coordinator to the Minister for International Development Cooperation and State Secretary for International Development Cooperation, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2006-2011

Minister’s office, Coordinator to the State Secretary for International Development Cooperation, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2004-2006

Desk officer, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and SADC, Africa Department, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2000-2004

Economic attaché, European Commission Delegation to Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles and La Réunion, Port-Louis, 1998-2000

African Medical and Research Foundation, AMREF, Nairobi, 1997

Consultant, International Labour Organisation, Johannesburg, 1996-1997

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EDUCATION

Swedish Diplomatic Training Programme, Stockholm, 2001

Master’s of Business Administration and Economics (French Major), Uppsala University, 1992-1997

Solvay, Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels, August 1995-Jan 1996

French Studies, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, 1991-1992

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LANGUAGES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS

Swedish: Native

Icelandic: Fluent

English: Fluent

French: Fluent

Commissioner of the Lancet commission on the interlinkages between health, gender equity and peaceful societies in 2023.

Responsible for organizing the first UN Conference on Oceans, co-hosted by Fiji and Sweden in 2017.

Served as advisor to the chair of the United Nation’s Secretary General’s Peacebuilding Fund in 2012–2015.