Gudrun Graf

Gudrun Graf (* 1958 in Graz ) is an Austrian diplomat . She was the first Austrian ambassador to be accredited to South Sudan and is the Austrian ambassador to Sweden .

Life

Gudrun Graf was born in Graz, where she also obtained her doctorate in law in 1980 at the law faculty of the University of Graz and graduated in 1986 with a master's degree in translation and interpreting for Spanish. In 1985 she received a master's degree in development planning from the Universidad Central de Venezuela with a thesis in the field of environmental and development policy . She also studied at Columbia University and Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

She began her professional life from 1978 to 1983 as an assistant at the law faculty of the University of Graz. From 1985 to 1986 she completed her legal practice and from 1986 to 1990 she worked in the foreign trade section of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs.

Gudrun Graf has been active in the diplomatic service since 1990, from 1993 to 1996 as Deputy Ambassador to the Brussels Embassy and from 1996 to 2000 as Deputy Permanent Representative to the Representation at the United Nations Office in Geneva . From 2005 to 2009 she was ambassador to Buenos Aires, Argentina , Uruguay and Paraguay. During her assignment as ambassador to Addis Ababa from 2009 to 2013, she was accredited to the governments of Ethiopia, Djibouti, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and as a permanent representative to the African Union . She has been the Austrian ambassador to Sweden since October 2018 .

Private

Gudrun Graf is married to a German-American lawyer and has two sons.

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personal data
SURNAME	Count, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz