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Lars Faaborg-Andersen

Lars Faaborg-Andersen

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Lars Faaborg-Andersen RSKmd (22 June 1956 – 22 June 2021) was a Danish diplomat who served as ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Israel from 2013 2017. He had a distinguished career spanning over thirty years in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Quick Facts Head of the Delegation of the EU to the State of Israel, Tel Aviv, Representative of Denmark to the EU Political and Security Committee, Brussels ...

Diplomatic career

Faaborg-Andersen joined the Danish Foreign Service in 1984. He served as deputy head of mission to the Danish Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa (1994 1998) and went on to serve as the Ministry's deputy head of Asian affairs (1998 2000) and head of Middle East and Latin American affairs (2000 2003). During Denmark's 2002 presidency of the Council of the EU, Faaborg-Andersen co-authored the original Roadmap for the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP), eventually approved by the Quartet. He later served as ambassador of Denmark to the United Nations (2003 2008) and as ambassador of Denmark to the Political and Security Committee of the EU (2008 2013) before being appointed EU ambassador to Israel by High Representative Catherine Ashton in 2013. He concluded his career serving as the Danish ambassador to Portugal.

Education

Faaborg-Andersen received his Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in 1982 on a Fulbright scholarship and his Master in Political and Administrative Science (Cand.adm.pol) from the University of Copenhagen in 1984. Faaborg-Andersen is married with two grown children.


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