Permanent Representative of Denmark

Ambassador Mr Per Poulsen-Hansen

2003 -

14 Sep. 1946 Born in Copenhagen

1967	Lieutenant, Danish Army (language specialist – Russian)
1970	Bachelor degree in Russian, University of Copenhagen
1973	First Lieutenant, Danish Army
1973	Master of Laws and Arts, University of Copenhagen
1973 – 75	Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1976 – 79	Second Secretary, Royal Danish Embassy, Moscow
1979 – 81	Personal Assistant to the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1981 – 84	Head of Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet and Eastern European Department)
1984 – 86	First Secretary, Royal Danish Embassy, London
1986 – 87	Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Royal Danish Embassy, London
1987 – 91	Head of NATO and Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1991 – 93	Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, from 1993 accreditation in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic
1994 – 99	Under-Secretary, Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1999 – 03	Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador, Prime Minister’s Office
2003-	Permanent Representative of Denmark to NATO, Brussels, Belgium

Commander, 1st Class, of the Order of the Dannebrog

Member of the Danish Defence Commissions of 1988 and 1997, member of the Interministerial Contact Group for Security Policy 1987-91, member of the Government’s Commission on Security and Disarmament (SNU), 1988-91, member of the Board of the Danish Institute of International Affairs from 1995-1999.
Married, 3 daughters.