Peter Taksøe-Jensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peter Taksøe-Jensen

Danish diplomat

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1959

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Profession: politician, jurist, diplomat

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Peter Taksøe-Jensen

  • Peter Taksøe-Jensen (born in 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark) has been the Danish Ambassador to India since August 2015.
  • The Ambassador represents the government of Denmark in India and is responsible for the direction and work of the Embassy.
  • He lives and works in New Delhi. Before his current post, Ambassador Taksøe-Jensen was Denmark's Ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2015.
  • Before that he was Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs at the United Nations.
  • He was appointed to this position by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2008.
  • He replaced Larry Johnson. Before joining the United Nations, Taksøe-Jensen served for more than two decades for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he joined in 1987.
  • He worked in different areas in the ministry including the Legal Service, the Security Policy Department and the European Union Law Department and on various government commissions.
  • He was posted to different places including to Vienna and to Brussels.
  • Taksøe-Jensen has been Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs and Head of the Legal Service in the Danish Ministry since 2004. In his capacity as ASG for Legal Affairs, Taksøe-Jensen was responsible for supporting the overall direction and management of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Taksøe-Jensen obtained his law degree from the University of Copenhagen. Taksøe-Jensen is chairman of the conciliation commission, which should solve the border dispute between Australia and East Timor.

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