Biography

 

Fredrik Wesslau is Director of the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has worked for the UN, EU, and OSCE on conflicts such as Iraq, Georgia, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabach, and Sudan/South Sudan. His focus has been primarily on peacemaking and stabilisation. Most recently, he was Country Representative for an EU counter-piracy office operating off the Horn of Africa. He has worked as political adviser to the EUSR for Sudan and South Sudan and the EUSR for the South Caucasus. Fredrik has also worked as Special Adviser to the SRSG for Kosovo and Head of the Strategic Policy Unit in UN Mission in Kosovo.

 

He is the author of The Political Adviser's Handbook and has previously worked as a journalist writing mainly for the International Herald Tribune. He regularly gives lectures and participates on panels on political affairs, conflict resolution, and EU security policy.

 

Fredrik has masters degrees from Columbia University (SIPA) and Sciences Po Paris and an undergraduate degree in international relations from the London School of Economics.