20 Facts About Urban Ahlin

Urban Ahlin currently serves as Ambassador of Sweden to the United States since 2023.

Urban Ahlin was Ambassador of Sweden to Canada from 2019 to 2023.

Between 1985 and 1990 Urban Ahlin studied at the specialist teacher-training course at Karlstad University.

Urban Ahlin then worked as a teacher at an upper level elementary school in Mariestad, teaching mathematics and general science, until being elected to the Swedish parliament in 1994.

Between 2002 and 2006 Urban Ahlin was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Swedish parliament.

Urban Ahlin was a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs, a member of the War Delegation, and a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs.

Urban Ahlin was a member of the party board of the Social Democratic Party.

Urban Ahlin has been the chair of the Socialist group in the OSCE PA, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Urban Ahlin is at the moment the deputy chair of the Swedish delegation to NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Urban Ahlin has been engaged in many mediations and negotiations.

Urban Ahlin was the backchannel between Belarus and United States in negotiating the release of the imprisoned presidential candidate in Belarus, Alexander Kozulin.

Urban Ahlin was the person behind the scene in the work to release the hostage at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party in Stockholm.

Urban Ahlin was the channel talking directly to the youngsters making them to give up after Ahlin gave a promise to attend the court hearings in Turkey.

Urban Ahlin is and has been a member of many different non-profit organisations.

Urban Ahlin is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations ECFR.

Urban Ahlin is a member of the Swedish group of Trilateral Commission.

Urban Ahlin has been a director of the influential American "think and do tank" EastWest Institute.

Urban Ahlin regularly participates in programs and seminars organised by The Aspen Institute, German Marshall Fund GMF and Council on Foreign Relationsin Washington DC.

Urban Ahlin is a member of the International Advisory Board of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferations Studies, CSN at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA.

Urban Ahlin received the state Order for Merits to Lithuania from President Adamkus in 2005 for his work to extend the international relationship.