Born 30th April, 1967, in Uppsala, Sweden, Annika Ben David earned a master’s degree in Political Science in 1992 and graduated from the Diplôme d’Études Supérieures en Relations Internationales, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland, in 1995.
Following engagements with the UNHCR in the mid ‘90s, she served as a desk officer of the Department for Political Affairs at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1996, then completed her diplomatic training during 1996-97. She served as Second Secretary (Political, Consular and Cultural) at the Embassy of Sweden in Tel Aviv, Israel (1997-2000), then First Secretary (Political, Economics, Trade) at the Embassy of Sweden in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2000-04), before later returning to the Embassy of Sweden to Israel as Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission (2006-10).
From 2010 to ’13, she was Head of Section for Central, Eastern and Southern Africa at the ministry’s Africa Department, after which she was appointed Ambassador of Sweden to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2013-16). Prior to arriving in Belgrade, Ambassador Ben David served as Ambassador at large for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law at the Swedish Foreign Ministry (2016-21).
A Divorced mother of two, she is fluent in French and English and has a basic understanding of Hebrew and German.
