Ambassadors of the European Union

Below are current ambassadors of the European Union to third countries and international organisations. They are also known as delegation heads or envoys.

Current ambassadors

Ambassadors to third countries

Host country	Delegation city	Ambassador	Selected	Notes
Afghanistan	Kabul	Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin[1]	2013	Previously Vygaudas Ušackas
Albania	Tirana	Romana Vlahutin [2]	2014	Previously Ettore Sequi
Algeria	Algiers	Marek Skolil	2012
Angola	Luanda	Gordon Kricke[3]	2010	Previously Javier Puyol Pinuela
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Alfonso Díez Torres[4]	2010
Armenia	Yerevan	Traian Hristea[5]	2011
Australia	Canberra	Sem Fabrizi[6]	2013	Previously David Daly 2009-2013 / Also accredited to New Zealand
Azerbaijan	Baku	Roland Kobia	2010
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Pierre Mayaudon[7]	2014	Previously: William Hanna.
Barbados	Bridgetown	Mikael Barfod	2012
Belarus	Minsk	Maira Mora	2010
Benin	Cotonou	Josep Coll[3]	2013	Previously Françoise Collet 2009-13
Bolivia	La Paz	Timothy Torlot	2012
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Lars-Gunnar Wigemark	2015	Previously Peter Sørensen
Botswana	Gaborone	Alexander Baum[8]	2014	Previously Gerard McGovern / Alex Baum previously served as Head of Delegation to  Malawi
Brazil	Brasília	Ana Paula Zacarias[9]	2011
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Alain Holleville[5]	2011
Burundi	Bujumbura	Patrick Spirlet	2013	Previously Stephane De Loecker / P. Spirlet previously served as Head of Delegation to Togo
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Jean-Francois Cautain[5]	2011	Previously Rafael Dochao Moreno caf
Cameroon	Yaoundé	Françoise Collet[3]	2013	F. Collet was previously Head of Delegation to Benin
Canada	Ottawa	Marie-Anne Coninsx[10]	2013	More information
Central African Republic	Bangui	Jean-Pierre Reymondet-Commoy[3]	2013	J-P. Raymondet-Commoy was previously Head of Delegation to Sierra Leone
Chad	N'Djamena	Dr Denisa-Elena IONETE	2015
Chile	Santiago	Rafael Dochao Moreno	2012
People's Republic of China	Beijing	Markus Ederer[7]	2010	Previously: Serge Abou
Colombia	Bogotá	Maria van Gool	2011
Republic of Congo	Brazzaville	Saskia De Lang	2014	Previous HOD Marcel van Opstal. De Lang had served in Uganda and Mali
Egypt	Cairo	James Moran[11]	2011
El Salvador	San Salvador	Jaume Segura Socias[3]	2013	Previously Stefano Gatto caf
Eritrea	Asmara	Christian R. Manahl	2014
Fiji	Suva	Andrew Jacobs	2013
Gabon	Libreville	Cristina Martins Barreira[7]	2010
Georgia	Tbilisi	János Herman[7]	2014	János Herman previously served as HOD in Norway and Special Envoy to Central Asia
Ghana	Accra	William Hanna	2014	William Hanna previously served as HOD in Bangladesh, Tanzania and Uruguay/Paraguay
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Stella Zervoudaki	2011	Previously Rafael Senán caf
Guinea	Conakry	Gerardus Gielen[12]	2014	Previously: Philippe Van Damme
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Joaquin Gonzalez-Ducay[7]	2010
Guyana	Georgetown	Robert Kopecky[5]	2011
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Javier Niño	2012	Previously Lut Fabert-Goossens
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	Ketil Karlsen	2013
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Vincent Piket	2010
Iceland	Reykjavík	Matthias Brinkmann	2013	Matthias Brinkmann previously served as HOD in Canada
India	New Delhi	Joao Cravinho[5]	2011
Indonesia	Jakarta	Julian Wilson[13]	2008
Iraq	Baghdad	Patrick Simonnet	2016
Israel	Tel-Aviv	Lars Faaborg-Andersen	2013
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	Jean-François Vallette[14]	2014
Jamaica	Kingston	Paola Amadei[5]	2011
Japan	Tokyo	Viorel Isticioaia Budura[14]	2014	Previously: Hans Dietmar Schweisgut
Jordan	Amman	Joanna Wronecka[7]	2010
Kazakhstan	Astana	Aurelia Bouchez[5]	2011
Republic of Korea	Seoul	Tomasz Kozłowski[7]	2010
Kosovo	Priština	Samuel Žbogar	2012
Liberia	Monrovia	Tina Intelmann[14]	2014	Previously Attilio Pacifici
Libya	janzur	Nataliya Apostolova	2012
Lebanon	Beirut	Angelina Eichhorst	2010
Macedonia	Skopje	Aivo Orav[15]	2012
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Luc Vandebon	2012
Malawi	Lilongwe	Marchel Gerrmann	2014	Gerrmann previously served as HOD in Eritrea
Mali	Bamako	Richard Zink	2011
Mauritius	Port Louis	Hans-Georg Gerstenlauer[3]	2013	Previously, H-S. Gerstanlauer was Head of Delegation in Mauritania
Mauritania	Nouakchott	José Antonio Sabadell	2013	Previously: Hans-Georg Gerstenlauer
Mexico	Mexico City	Andrew Standley	2013
Mozambique	Maputo	Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff[14]	2014	Previously Paul Malin / S. Kühn von Burgsdorff previously served as Head of Delegation to South Sudan
Namibia	Windhoek	Raúl Fuentes Milani[7]	2010
Nicaragua	Managua	Francisco Javier Sandomingo[5]	2011
Niger	Niamey	Raul Mateus Paula[3]	2013	R. Mateus Paula previously served as Head of Delegation to Cameroon
Nigeria	Abuja	Michel Arrion[3]	2013	Michel Arrion previously served as Head of Delegation to Rwanda, Ivory Coast and Liberia.
Nepal	Kathmandu	Reesje Teerink	2013	Previously Alexander Spachis
Norway	Oslo	Helen Campbell[6]	2013
Pakistan	Islamabad	Stefano Gatto a.i.	2015	Lars-Gunnar Wigemark 2011 - 15
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Martin Dihm[7]	2010
Philippines	Manila	Guy Ledoux[7]	2010
Russia	Moscow	Vygaudas Ušackas [16]	2013	Previously Fernando M. Valenzuela
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Adam Kulach[7]	2012	Also accredited to  Bahrain,  Kuwait,  Oman,  Qatar
Senegal	Dakar	Dominique Dellicour[7]	2010
Singapore	Singapore	Michael Pulch[3]	2013	Previously Marc Ungeheuer
South Africa	Pretoria	Roeland van de Geer[7]	2010
Sudan	Khartoum	Tomáš Uličný	2011
South Sudan	Juba	Stefano De Leo	2014	Previously: Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff
Swaziland	Mbabane	Nicola Bellomo[3]	2013	Previously CdA Amadou Traore
Switzerland	Bern	Richard Jones[5]	2011
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Eduard Auer	2010
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	Filiberto Ceriani Sebregondi[5]	2011
Thailand	Bangkok	Jesús Miguel Sanz Escorihuela[6]	2013
Togo	Lomé	Nicolas Berlanga Martinez[3]	2013
Turkey	Ankara	Stefano Manservisi[17]	2014	Previously: Jean-Maurice Ripert (France)
Uganda	Kampala	Kristian Schmidt[7]	2013
Ukraine	Kiev	Jan Tombiński[18]	2012
UAE	Abu Dhabi	Carlo de Filippi	2014
United States	Washington, D.C.	David O'Sullivan[19]	2014	Previously João Vale de Almeida / More information
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Yuri Sterk[20]	2012
Vanuatu	Port Vila	Leonidas Tezapsidis[14]	2014	Also accredited to  Solomon Islands / S. Tezapsidis previously served as Head of Delegation to Madagascar
Venezuela	Caracas	Aude Maio-Coliche	2013	Previously Antonio Cardoso Mota
Viet Nam	Hanoi	Franz Jessen[5]	2011
Yemen	Sana'a	Bettina Muscheidt	2012
Zambia	Lusaka	Gilles Hervio[7]	2010
Zimbabwe	Harare	Philippe Van Damme	2014	Prev HOD: Aldo Dell'Ariccia, Italy. Van Damme has served as HOD in Guinea

Ambassadors to international organisations

Organisation	Delegation city	Ambassador	Selected	Notes
African Union	Addis Ababa	Gary Quince[5]	2011	Previously EUSR Koen Vervaeke
Council of Europe	Strasbourg	Jari VILEN[21]	2014
World Trade Organisation	Geneva	Angelos Pangratis[22]	2010
United Nations	New York City	Thomas Mayr-Harting[5]	2011	Details: European Union and the United Nations#Head of delegation
United Nations	Geneva	Peter Sørensen[23]	2014	Previously Mariangela Zappia
UNESCO	Paris	Maria Francesca Spatolisano	2012

See also

• Accreditations and Responsibilities of EU delegations
• European External Action Service
• European Union and the United Nations
• European Union Special Representative
• Foreign relations of the European Union

References

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