FRIDE - Schori, Pierre

Pierre Schori

Former Director General, FRIDE

Pierre Schori was Director General of FRIDE until september 2009. 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.

In 2000, Schori was appointed Swedish Ambassador to the United Nations, a position he held until 2004. He has also served as a Member of the Swedish Parliament, and the European Parliament for the Swedish Social Democratic Group.

He is also chairperson of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund and of Swedish ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes').

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) and its spanish version "Los años de la semilla del mal, 11-S. La guerra de Iraq y el mundo después de Bush". Editorial Icaria. Oct 2008

Married with three children, Pierre Schori speaks Swedish, English, French and Spanish.

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