Niels Egelund (born July 4, 1946) is a Danish diplomat. From 1999 to 2003, he served as Denmark's

Permanent Representative A permanent representative is a diplomat who is the head of a country’s diplomatic mission to an international organisation. Organizations that receive permanent representatives from their member states include the United Nations, the World Tr ...

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

and from 2009 to 2009 as Ambassador to

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

. He was appointed as Under-Secretary and Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the personal rank of Ambassador in 1992, and was Chief Adviser on foreign and defence policy to Prime Minister

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (, informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943) is a retired Danish politician. Rasmussen was Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from ...

from 1993 to 1999. He is a graduate of the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

and the

College of Europe The College of Europe (french: Collège d'Europe) is a post-graduate institute of European studies with its main campus in Bruges, Belgium and a second campus in Warsaw, Poland. The College of Europe in Bruges was founded in 1949 by leading ...

(1970-1971 promotion) in Bruges. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972. He was awarded a Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1998.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Egeland, Niels College of Europe alumni Commanders of the Order of the Dannebrog University of Copenhagen alumni Permanent Representatives of Denmark to NATO Ambassadors of Denmark to France 1946 births Living people