Jenny Ohlsson

Jenny Ohlsson is a Swedish diplomat. She is the first Swedish ambassador to Rwanda.[1]

She visited the Pearson College UWC in Victoria, British Columbia and studied at Uppsala University from 1998 to 2007.

Jenny Ohlsson joined the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2002. Her assignments included working for the Africa Department, the Swedish embassy in Pretoria and the Swedish office in Kigali (from 2007 to 2009). Another assignment was working as counsellor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cabinet Office.

On a diplomatic level the diplomatic contacts of Sweden to Rwanda were upheld through the embassies in Nairobi and Kampala. The first Swedish representative in Rwanda in 1997 resided in a hotel room. The Swedish embassy in Kigali was opened in 2016. Jenny Ohlsson became the first Swedish ambassador to Rwanda residing in Kigali.[2]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Ny ambassadör i Rwanda. Press release on the website of the Swedish government from 22 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Twenty years after; a peek into Rwanda-Sweden ties. Article on igihe.com from 29 November 2017.


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