ISS Seminar, Pretoria: Sweden's and the EU's Policy towards Africa
Date: 2011-09-27
Venue: ISS Conference Room
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, Block C, Brooklyn Court
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, 361 Veale Street
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, New Muckleneuk
RSVP: Sarah Malefo
Tel: 012 346 9500
Fax: 012 460 0997
Rapid and profound economic and political changes have taken place and are under way in several African countries. As a consequence new opportunities and in some cases new challenges have emerged that influence the nature of the relationship between Africa and Europe. Ambassador Ronnås will give a presentation on the focus of and drivers behind Sweden`s and the EU`s Africa policy and the influence of rapid change in Africa on the formulation of this policy.
Ambassador Lars Ronnås is Deputy Director General and Head of the Africa Department at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Since joining the Ministry in 1990 ambassador Ronnås has held several senior positions in the Africa Department and the Department for International Law and Human Rights. From 2006 to 2009 he was the Swedish Ambassador to Zambia. Ambassador Ronnås is an economist by training. He is married and has two sons and two daughters.
- CHAIRPERSON: Dr Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow, Security Sector Governance (SSG), Institute for Security Studies
- KEY SPEAKER: Amb Lars Ronnås, Deputy Director General in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Head of the Africa Department
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