People
Happy to be here
Updated: 2011-09-23 11:47
By Mike Peters (China Daily European Weekly)
Friis Arne Petersen
Ambassador of Denmark to China
Born: 1952
Family: Married to teacher Birgitte Wilhelmsen. They have a son and two daughters.
Education: 1978 Master of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Career:
1978-1979: Head of section, National Audit Office
1979-1979: Head of section, Economic Affairs, Foreign Ministry
1979-1981: Head of section, Political-Economic Affairs, Foreign Ministry
1981-1984: 1st Secretary, Royal Danish Embassy, Cairo
1984-1986: Head of Section, Economic Affairs
1986-1993: Chief of staff of Foreign Minister Uffe Elleman-Jensen's office
1993-1994: Chief of staff of foreign minister Niels Helveg Petersen's office
1994-1995: Director, Russia and Eastern Europe department
1995-1997: Under secretary of state for foreign and security policy
1997-2005: Head of the Foreign Ministry, permanent secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, alternate for the minister for Foreign Affairs in the European Union Council of Ministers
2005-2010: Ambassador of Denmark to the US
2010: Ambassador of Denmark to China
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