Peter Ericson has been Consul General of Sweden in Istanbul since 1 September 2019. He arrived from Moscow, where he served as the Ambassador of Sweden to Russia for four years.
From 2010 to 2015, he was Deputy Director-General and Head of the Security Policy Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He was responsible for Swedish security policy overall, as well as Sweden’s relations to the United Nations, NATO, OSCE, the Council of Europe, and security policy issues in the European Union, in particular the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Counterterrorism, sanctions, and Swedish participation in peace operations were also part of his remit.
Before returning to Stockholm in 2010, Ericson spent three years as Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations. From 2001 to 2007, he was Head of the Political Section (Political Counselor) at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington. Prior to this, he was Head of the Office of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) at the Department of European Security at the MFA.
Ericson joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989. After one year of diplomatic training, he was posted to Moscow in 1990, and moved to Brussels in 1994, where he represented Sweden in the working bodies of the Western European Union. He returned to Stockholm in 1998, initially working on conventional arms control and subsequently ESDP.
Ericson has a B.Sc. in economics and business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics. He studied Political Science, Soviet and East European Studies, Russian and French at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm. In addition to his Swedish mother tongue, he speaks fluent English and Russian, and has a working knowledge of French. He enjoys running, having completed seven marathons, and playing the guitar.
Peter Ericson is married to acclaimed Swedish author Stina Stoor.