Harald Sandberg

Who is Harald Sandberg?

Harald Sandberg is a Swedish diplomat and civil servant who served as Swedish ambassador to Indonesia, East Timor and South Korea. Having acted as an observer in the 1999 East Timorese elections and headed up the Swedish response to the 2002 Bali bombing, Sandberg was selected in July 2006 by the Swedish government to head up its mission to evacuate Swedish citizens from war ravaged Lebanon. After acting as the Head of Human Resources for the Swedish foreign service between 2008 and 2012, Sandberg was appointed as the new Swedish ambassador to India in June 2012, he assumed the position in July.

In September 2005, Ambassador Sandberg received a decoration from the Korean national Red Cross for his work for Human Rights in North Korea