Ambassadors of the European Union

Below are current ambassadors of the European Union to third countries and international organizations. They are also known as delegation heads or envoys. Previously to the Lisbon Treaty, the EU was represented abroad by the Ambassador of the country holding the semestral EU presidency, and the European Commission was represented by a Head of Delegation of the European Commission, member of the diplomatic corps and given the tile of ambassador as a courtesy. Since 2010, the Ambassador of the European Union, now officially accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, is appointed by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission, following a proposal by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. He/she is chosen among candidates coming from the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission, the European Council and the 28 Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Member States of the European Union.

Current ambassadors

Ambassadors to third countries

Host country	Delegation city	Ambassador	Selected	Notes
Afghanistan	Kabul	Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin[1]	2013	Vygaudas Ušackas (2009 - 13)
Albania	Tirana	Romana Vlahutin [2]	2014	Ettore Sequi (2010 - 14)
Algeria	Algiers	Marek Skolil	2012
Angola	Luanda	Gordon Kricke	2013	Javier Puyol-Piñuela (2009 - 13)
Argentina	Buenos Aires	José Ignacio Salafranca	2014	Alberto Diez Torres (2010 - 14)
Armenia	Yerevan	Piotr Antoni Świtalski	2015	Traian Hristea (2011 - 15)
Australia	Canberra	Sem Fabrizi[3]	2013	David Daly 2009-2013
Azerbaijan	Baku	Malena Mard	2013	Roland Kobia (2009 - 13)
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Pierre Mayaudon[4]	2014	William Hanna (2010 - 14).
Barbados	Bridgetown	Daniela Tramacere	2016	Mikael Barfod (2012 - 16).
Belarus	Minsk	Andrea Joana-Maria Wiktorin	2015	Maira Mora (2011 - 15)
Benin	Cotonou	Josep Coll[5]	2013	Françoise Collet (2009-13)
Bolivia	La Paz	León de la Torre Krais	2016	Timothy Torlot (2012 - 16)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Lars-Gunnar Wigemark	2015	Accredited also as EU Special Representative Peter Sørensen (2011 - 15)
Botswana	Gaborone	Alexander Baum[6]	2014	Gerard McGovern (2010 - 14)
Brazil	Brasília	Joao Cravinho	2015	Ana Paula Zacarias (2011 - 15)
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Jean Lamy	2015	Alain Holleville (2011 - 15)
Burundi	Bujumbura	Patrick Spirlet	2013	Stephane De Loecker (2009 - 13)
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	George Edgar	2015	Jean-Francois Cautain (2011 - 15)
Cameroon	Yaoundé	Françoise Collet[5]	2013
Canada	Ottawa	Marie-Anne Coninsx[7]	2013	Matthias Brinkmann (2009 - 13)
Central African Republic	Bangui	Jean-Pierre Reymondet-Commoy[5]	2013
Chad	N'Djamena	Denisa-Elena Ionete	2015	Hélène Cave (2010 - 15)
Chile	Santiago	Stella Zervoudaki	2016	Rafael Dochao Moreno (2012 - 16)
People's Republic of China	Beijing	Hans Dietmar Schweisgut	2014	Markus Ederer (2010 - 14)
Colombia	Bogotá	Ana Paula Zacarias	2015	Maria van Gool (2011 - 15)
Republic of Congo	Brazzaville	Saskia De Lang	2014	Marcel van Opstal (2010 - 14)
Democratic Republic of Congo	Kinshasa	Jean Michel Dumond	2016	Tomáš Uličný (2011 - 16)
Cuba	Havana	Herman Portocarrero	2012
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Alberto Navarro	2013
Ecuador	Quito	Marianne Van Steen	2016	Peter Schwaiger (2012 - 16)
Egypt	Cairo	Reinhold Brender a.i.	2016	James Moran (2012 - 16)
El Salvador	San Salvador	Jaume Segura Socias[5]	2013	Stefano Gatto (2009 - 13)
Eritrea	Asmara	Christian R. Manahl	2014	Marchel Germann
Fiji	Suva	Andrew Jacobs	2013	Abdoul M'Bayé (2011 - 13)
Gabon	Libreville	Helmut Kulitz	2015	Cristina Martins Barreira (2011 - 15)
Georgia	Tbilisi	János Herman[4]	2014	Philip Dimitrov (2010 - 14)
Ghana	Accra	William Hanna	2014	Claude Maerten (2010 - 14)
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Stefano Gatto	2016	Stella Zervoudaki (2011 - 16)
Guinea	Conakry	Gerardus Gielen[8]	2014	Philippe Van Damme (2010 - 14)
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Victor Madeira dos Santos	2015	Joaquin Gonzalez-Ducay (2011 - 15)
Guyana	Georgetown	Jernej Videtič	2015	Robert Kopecky (2011 - 15) EU Ambassador accredited also in  Suriname
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Vincent Degert	2015	Javier Niño (2012 - 15)
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	Ketil Karlsen	2013	Peter Versteeg (2009 - 13)
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Carmen Cano	2016	Accredited as Head of Office Vincent Piket (2012 - 16)
Iceland	Reykjavík	Matthias Brinkmann	2013
India	New Delhi	Tomasz Kozlowski[9]	2016	Joao Cravinho (2012 -16)
Indonesia	Jakarta	Vincent Guérend	2015	Olof Skogg a.i. (2014 - 15)
Iraq	Baghdad	Patrick Simonnet	2016	Jana Hybášková (2012 - 16)
Israel	Tel-Aviv	Lars Faaborg-Andersen	2013	Andrew Standley (2009 - 13)
Ivory Coast	Abidjan	Jean-François Vallette[10]	2014	Thierry de Saint Maurice
Jamaica	Kingston	Malgorzata Wasilewska	2016	Paola Amadei (2012 - 16)
Japan	Tokyo	Viorel Isticioaia Budura[10]	2014	Hans Dietmar Schweisgut (2010 - 14)
Jordan	Amman	Andrea Matteo Fontana	2015	Joanna Wronecka (2010 - 15)
Kazakhstan	Astana	Aurelia Bouchez[11]	2011
Kenya	Nairobi	Stefano Antonio Dejak	2015	Lodewijk Briët (2011 - 15)
Republic of Korea	Seoul	Gerhard Sabathil	2015	Tomasz Kozłowski (2011 - 15)
Kosovo	Pristina	Nataiiya Apostolova	2016	Accredited as Head of Office and EU Special Representative Samuel Žbogar (2011 - 16)
Laos	Vientiane	Leo Faber	2016
Liberia	Monrovia	Tina Intelmann[10]	2014	Attilio Pacifici (2010 - 14)
Libya	Tripoli	Bettina Muscheidt	2012	Nataliya Apostolova (2012 - 16)
Lebanon	Beirut	Christina Lassen	2014	Angelina Eichhorst (2010 - 14)
Macedonia	Skopje	Samuel Žbogar	2016	Aivo Orav (2012 - 16)
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Maria Castillo Fernández	2016	Luc Vandebon (2012 - 16)
Malawi	Lilongwe	Marchel Gerrmann	2014	Alexander Baum (2010 - 14)
Mali	Bamako	Alain Holleville	2015	Richard Zink (2011 - 15)
Mauritius	Port Louis	Marjaana Sall	2015	H-S. Gerstanlauer (2013 - 15)
Mauritania	Nouakchott	José Antonio Sabadell	2013	Hans-Georg Gerstenlauer (2009 - 13)
Mexico	Mexico City	Andrew Standley	2013	Marianne Coninskk (2009 - 13)
Mozambique	Maputo	Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff[10]	2014	Paul Malin (2011 - 2014)
Myanmar	Yangon	Roland Kobia	2013
Namibia	Windhoek	Jana Hybášková	2015	Raúl Fuentes Milani (2010 - 15)
New Zealand	Wellington	Bernard Savage	2016	Mikalis Rokas (2012 - 16)
Nicaragua	Managua	Kenneth Bell	2015	Javier Sandomingo, 2011 - 15
Niger	Niamey	Raul Mateus Paula[5]	2013
Nigeria	Abuja	Michel Arrion[5]	2013
Nepal	Kathmandu	Reesje Teerink	2013	Alexander Spachis (2007 - 13)
Norway	Oslo	Helen Campbell[3]	2013
Pakistan	Islamabad	Jean François Cautain	2015	Lars-Gunnar Wigemark 2011 - 15, Stefano Gatto a.i. 2015
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Ioannis Giogkarakis-Argyropoulos	2015
Paraguay	Asunción	Alessandro Palmero	2013
Peru	Lima	Irene Horejis	2013
Philippines	Manila	Franz Jessen	2014	Guy Ledoux (2010 - 14)
Russia	Moscow	Vygaudas Ušackas [12]	2013	Fernando M. Valenzuela (2009 - 13)
Rwanda	Kigali	Michael Ryan	2013
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Adam Kulach[4]	2012	Also accredited to  Bahrain,  Kuwait,  Oman,  Qatar
Senegal	Dakar	Joaquín González - Ducay	2015	Dominique Dellicour (2010 - 15)
Serbia	Belgrade	Michael Davenport	2013
Singapore	Singapore	Michael Pulch[5]	2013	Marc Ungeheuer
Solomon Islands	Honiara	Leonidas Tazapsidis	2014	Also accredited to  Vanuatu
South Africa	Pretoria	Marcus Cornaro	2014	Roeland van de Geer (2010 - 14)
Sri Lanka	Colombo	Tung - Lai MargueDavid Daly	2016	David Daly (2013 - 16)
Sudan	Khartoum	Jean Michel Dumond	2016	Tomáš Uličný (2011 - 16)
South Sudan	Juba	Stefano De Leo	2014	Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff (2010 - 14)
Swaziland	Mbabane	Nicola Bellomo[5]	2013	Amadou Traore (2009 - 13)
Switzerland	Bern	Richard Jones	2011
Taiwan	Taipei	Madeleine Maiorenko	2015	Accredited as Head of Office
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Hidajet Biščević	2014	Eduard Auer (2010 - 14)
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	Roeland van de Geer	2015	Filiberto Ceriani Sebregondi (2011 - 15)
Thailand	Bangkok	Jesús Miguel Sanz Escorihuela[3]	2013
Togo	Lomé	Nicolas Berlanga Martinez[5]	2013
Trinidad Tobago	Port of Spain	Arend Biesebroek	2016
Tunisia	Tunis	Patrice Bergamini	2016	Laura Baeza (2012 - 16)
Turkey	Ankara	Vacant	2014	Jean-Maurice Ripert (2011-13), Stefano Manservisi (2014), Hansjörg Haber (2015 - 16)
UAE	Abu Dhabi	Patrizio Fondi	2015	Mihail Stuparu 2012–2014, Carlo De Filippi a.i 2015
Uganda	Kampala	Kristian Schmidt[4]	2013
Ukraine	Kiev	Hugues Mingarelli	2016	Jan Tombiński 2012–2016
United States	Washington, D.C.	David O'Sullivan[13]	2014	João Vale de Almeida / More information
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Yuri Sterk[14]	2012
Uruguay	Montevideo	Juan Fernández Trigo	2013
Venezuela	Caracas	Aude Maio-Coliche	2013	Antonio Cardoso Mota (2009 - 13)
Vietnam	Hanoi	Bruno Angelet	2015	Franz Jessen (2011 - 15)
Yemen	Sana'a	Antonia Calvo Puerta	2016	Bettina Muscheidt (2012 - 16) / Currently Delegation works from Amman
Zambia	Lusaka	Alessandro Mariani	2015	Gilles Hervio (2010 - 15)
Zimbabwe	Harare	Philippe Van Damme	2014	Aldo Dell'Ariccia (2010 - 14)

Ambassadors to international organisations

Organisation	Delegation city	Ambassador	Selected	Notes
African Union	Addis Ababa	Ranieri Sabatucci	2015	Previously Gary Quince (2011 - 15)
ASEAN	Jakarta	Francisco Fontán Pardo	2015
Council of Europe	Strasbourg	Jari Vilen[15]	2014
World Trade Organisation	Geneva	Mark Vanheukelen	2015	Angelos Pangratis (2011 - 15)
United Nations	New York City	João Vale de Almeida	2015	Thomas Mayr-Harting (2011 - 15)
United Nations	Geneva	Peter Sørensen[16]	2014	Mariangela Zappia (2011 - 14)
United Nations	Vienna	Didier Lenoir	2015	Györgyi Margit Martin Zanathy (2011 - 15)
UNESCO	Paris	Maria Francesca Spatolisano	2012	Accredited to OECD
Holy See	Rome	Jan Tombiński	2016	Laurence Argimon - Pistre (2012 - 16)	Accredited to FAO, Malta Order and San Marino Republic

See also

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

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