Rolf Ekéus

Carl Rolf Ekéus (* July 7, 1935 in Kristinehamn ) is a Swedish diplomat.

1991 Ekéus was appointed spokesperson for the United Nations Special Commission on Disarmament in Iraq. He was at that time Sweden's Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe CSCE. In the same year he and Hans Blix visited Iraq and brought the local government to allow the UN Commission on UNSCOM weapons inspections in the country. The United States promoted the candidacy of Ekéus as head of the weapons inspections in the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003 at the site of Blix. After the Iraq war Ekéus Blix criticized for this, he was naive and too soft on Saddam Hussein. Ekéus claimed as the Bush administration that Iraq had stored weapons of mass destruction.

Ekéus was from 2001 to 2007 High Commissioner on National Minorities of the OSCE in The Hague and is a board member of the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( NTI ), and Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons ( ICMP).

Rolf Ekéus is beyond since 2005 Chairman of the Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI ).