Peter Semneby will join GMF as a Senior Fellow in January 2012.  Mr. Semneby served as EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus from 2006 to 2011, concentrating on the protracted conflicts, political reform, human rights issues, and crisis management. Previously he was Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia between 2002 and 2005 and Head of the OSCE Mission to Latvia between 2000 and 2002. In Croatia, Peter Semneby and his staff assisted Croatia in post-conflict rehabilitation and reconcilitation. His work in Latvia focussed on citizenship and language issues. Peter Semneby is currently on leave from the Swedish Foreign Service. He has been responsible for the European Security and Defense Policy in the Swedish Foreign Ministry and has also served in the Swedish embassies in Germany, Ukraine and the USSR.

Education: Peter Semneby has been educated at the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Uppsala, the University of Stockholm, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Languages: Apart from his native Swedish, Peter Semneby speaks English, Russian, German and French, and has a working knowledge of Croatian and Serbian.