Fredrik Löjdquist

Director

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at UI, Sweden

Fredrik Löjdquist is Director of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, UI, since its start in 2021. Löjdquist is a former Swedish diplomat, with previous missions such as special envoy and ambassador for the Swedish Presidency of the EU in Georgia 2009, ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 2012–2017, and most recently, Sweden's first ambassador and special envoy for countering hybrid threats based in Stockholm 2018–2021. He has also been on diplomatic missions in Vilnius, Moscow, Tbilisi and Vienna, he represented Sweden in the OSCE Structured Dialogue on European security 2017–2021, and was a member of the steering board of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki 2018-21. Löjdquist is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademien – KkrVA) and of the International Advisory Board for the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn. Löjdquist has been awarded H.M. The King of Sweden’s Medal, 12th size with the Order of the Seraphim ribbon, for "outstanding achievements in Swedish foreign service and European security policy".