Jan Eliasson

Jan Eliasson
4th Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
In office 1 July 2012 – 31 December 2016
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-moon
Preceded by	Asha-Rose Migiro
Succeeded by	Amina Mohammed
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office 24 April 2006 – 6 October 2006
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Laila Freivalds
Succeeded by	Carl Bildt
60th President of the United Nations General Assembly
In office 13 September 2005 – 11 September 2006
Preceded by	Jean Ping
Succeeded by	Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa
Swedish Ambassador to the United States
In office 2000–2005
Preceded by	Rolf Ekéus
Succeeded by	Gunnar Lund
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs
In office 1994–1999
Preceded by	Lars-Åke Nilsson
Succeeded by	Hans Dahlgren
1st Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
In office 1992–1994
Succeeded by	Peter Hansen
Swedish Ambassador to the United Nations
In office 1988–1992
Preceded by	Anders Ferm
Succeeded by	Peter Osvald
Personal details
Born	Jan Kenneth Eliasson (1940-09-17) 17 September 1940 (age 76) Gothenburg, Sweden
Political party	Social Democratic
Alma mater	Royal Swedish Naval Academy University of Gothenburg

Jan Kenneth Eliasson (born 17 September 1940) is a Swedish diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 2012 to December 2016. A member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Eliasson served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 24 April to 6 October 2006.

Jan Eliasson was born in a working-class family in Gothenburg in Sweden.He was an AFS exchange student in Indiana, United States, from 1957 to 1958 and was commissioned a naval officer in the reserve after training at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy in 1962. In 1965 he earned a master's degree in economics from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg where he was also a president of the local AIESEC committee. He also holds honorary degrees from American University (1994), University of Gothenburg (2001) and Uppsala University (2005).

Eliasson has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles and is a frequent lecturer on foreign policy and diplomacy. Since 1988 he has been a visiting lecturer on mediation, conflict resolution and UN reform at Uppsala University.

Eliasson started his diplomatic career in 1965, when he was employed at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. From 1982 to 1983 he served as Diplomatic Advisor to the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, and from 1983 to 1987 as Director General for Political Affairs in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

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