Interview With H.E. Sten Schwede, Estonian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

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January 27, 2022 ㅡ Asia Society Korea Center Executive Director Yvonne Kim will sit down with H.E. Sten Schwede, Estonian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, in this segment of the Ambassador Series. As the first residential ambassador of Estonia to South Korea, H.E. Sten Schwede will discuss his insights into the strengthening relationship between the two countries in bilateral relations, economics, knowledge sharing, and cultural sharing.

H.E. Sten Schwede, Estonian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

H.E. Schwede

Estonia’s first in-residence ambassador to Korea, H.E. Sten Schwede assumed the role of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to the Republic of Korea in August 2021.

The grandson of Estonian industrialist and wool manufacturer, Jaan Schwede, Amb. Schwede has been working at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1997.

Prior to his ambassadorship in Seoul, he was Director of the 5th Bureau in the Political Department of the foreign ministry between 2018 and 2021. Previously, he was the Estonian Ambassador to Czech Republic (Aug 2014), Slovenia (May 2017), Croatia (June 2017). Ambassador Schwede also served as the Consul General of New York between 2011 and 2014.

He graduated from Gustav Adolf Gymnasium in 1991 and from the University of Trondheim (NTNU) in 1997 with a degree in political science.

Ambassador Schwede is married with three children.

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Online
Thu 27 Jan 2022
11 - 11:45 a.m.
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20220127T110000 20220127T114500 America/New_York Asia Society: Interview With H.E. Sten Schwede, Estonian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

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