Pierre Schori
Director General, FRIDE
A Swedish diplomat with vast experience in foreign affairs, development cooperation and peacekeeping operations, Schori served from 2005 until the beginning of 2007 as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of Mission in Côte d’Ivoire, responsible for the 10,000 civil and military personnel that integrate the complex peacekeeping mission.
After a long career at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Pierre Schori was Minister for International Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy, and Deputy Foreign Minister between 1994 and 1999.
He has been both a Member of the Swedish Parliament and a Member of the European Parliament (for the Social Democratic Party), and acted as Foreign Policy spokesman for the socialist group in the European Parliament.
Between 2000 and 2004 he occupied the position of Swedish Ambassador to the United Nations.
Distinguished Visiting Professor 2004-2005 (Adelphi University, New York), Pierre Schori is author of several books including:
- Latin Americans on Latin America (Stockholm, 1968);
- El desafío europeo en Centroamérica (San José, 1982);
- Dokument Inifran (Between Blocks and Bridges: Swedish Foreign Policy from Olof Palme to Post-Communism, Stockholm, 1992);
- Entre Escila y Caribdis: Olof Palme, la Guerra Fría y el Poscomunismo (Mexico, 1994);
- Europe between Maastricht and Sarajevo (Stockholm, 1994);
- The Impossible Neutrality. Southern Africa (Cape Town, 1994);
- Olof Palme, Reformisten utan gränser (Stockholm, 1996);
- Olof Palme – Reformista sin Fronteras (Barcelona 1997);
- Can the United Nations manage the new era? (Stockholm, 1999).
- Painful Partnership: The United States, the European Union and Global Governance, in Global Governance 11 (2005).
Recently, Pierre Schori published The years of the Dragon´s Teeth - September 11, the Iraq War and the World after Bush (2008) (This latest book is only available in Swedish).
Married with three children, Pierre Schori speaks Swedish, English, French and Spanish.
Selected articles:
- Zimbabwe: The same old dirty tricks (06/27/2008)
- Death in Baghdad and the UN role in Iraq (Maxims News, 05/27/2008)
- Una apuesta ética (Capital, 03/01/2008)
- Schori (FRIDE) pide a la UE que "prepare una agenda" para sus futuras relaciones con la Administración post Bush (Europa Press,10/08/2007)
- Freedom of speech in the era of globalisation (Maxims News, 08/11/2007)
- Europe and the Arab world: divided souls (Open Democracy, 05/30/2007)
- Superpower: What we need is a cooperative America (International Herald Tribune, 08/06/2002)
- Mugabe beyond the pale: Not the way to govern Zimbabwe (International Herald Tribune, 02/28/2002)
Spoken languages
English, French, Spanish, Swedish
Written languages
English, French, Spanish, Swedish
Expert publications
- 27/06/2008 - Zimbabwe: the same old dirty tricks
- 22/05/2008 - Death in Baghdad and the UN role in Iraq
- 08/11/2007 - Freedom of speech in the era of globalization
