Fredrik Löjdquist

Fredrik Löjdquist is the Director of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS), an independent institute established and funded by the Swedish government. A former career diplomat, he has extensive experience in European security and eastern European affairs.

Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Sweden’s first Ambassador and Special Envoy for Countering Hybrid Threats. During this period, he represented Sweden in the OSCE Structured Dialogue on European Security and served on the steering board of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki. His previous high-level missions include serving as Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 2012 to 2017, and as Special Envoy and Ambassador for the Swedish Presidency of the EU in Georgia in 2009. His diplomatic career also included postings in Vilnius, Moscow, Tbilisi, and Vienna.

Mr Löjdquist holds a master’s degree in political theory from the London School of Economics. He pursued further studies in political science, Russian, eastern European/Soviet studies, philosophy, and rhetoric at Uppsala University, as well as within the PhD programme at Stockholm University’s Department of Political Science.