List of ambassadors of Sweden to Cambodia

In January 1961, an agreement was reached between Sweden and Cambodia to establish diplomatic relations. Sweden's ambassador in Bangkok, Tord Hagen, was appointed to also be ambassador in Phnom Penh.^[1] In March the same year, he presented his credentials to Cambodia's head of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk.^[2]

In October 1975, it was reported that the Cambodian government had granted agrément to Sweden's ambassador in Beijing, Kaj Björk. He was then co-accredited as Swedish ambassador in Phnom Penh. Björk was thereby one of the first diplomats to be granted agrément in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge took power there in April 1975.^[3]

From the formation of the satellite state People's Republic of Kampuchea in 1979 until the monarchy was restored in 1993, Sweden had no accredited ambassador in Cambodia. From 1993, Sweden's ambassador in Bangkok was co-accredited in Phnom Penh.^[4]

From the 1990s until 2010, Sweden had a section office (Development Co-operation Section) in Phnom Penh, under the Swedish embassy in Bangkok. This section office was staffed with SIDA personnel, where the head of the office had the diplomatic rank of counsellor (and in the final year minister counsellor).^[5][6]

Sweden opened an embassy in Cambodia in August 2010.^[6] On 26 November 2020, the Swedish government decided that the embassy would be closed down.^[7] In November 2021, the embassy in Phnom Penh was closed, and on 1 December 2021 it was converted into a section office, under the embassy in Bangkok.^[b] Thereafter, the Swedish ambassador in Bangkok was once again co-accredited to Phnom Penh.