PDK
Pernille Dahler Kardel
Denmark
Ambassador of Denmark to Serbia
Description
Ms Pernille Dahler Kardel is currently Denmark’s ambassador the Republic of Serbia and to Montenegro and the Republic of Northern Macedonia. She came to Serbia from Australia where she served as ambassador from 2020, including as non-resident ambassador to New Zealand and to Fiji. She has been active in international diplomacy for almost 35 years, having held senior positions in the United Nations and the Danish Foreign Service. Her diplomatic experience includes posts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America and Oceania and covers political affairs, peace facilitation, counter terrorism, international cooperation and economic development with a particular focus on the area of women, peace and security.
Ambassador Kardel has served as UN Under Secretary General and Acting UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon from November 2017 through February 2019. She came to that post after a tour as Assistant Secretary General (Political) for the UN’s Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) in 2016-17.
Previously, she held posts as Denmark’s ambassador to Egypt (2012-16), and to Ethiopia (2007-2012) being also accredited to Sudan, South Sudan and Djibouti, and she was the Permanent Representative to the African Union, IGAD and ECOWAS. Prior to that, she was posted to the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in New York (2003-07), including during Denmark’s membership of the UN Security Council where she was in charge of the daily running of Denmark’s chairmanship of the Counter Terrorism Committee. She has also served in Moscow (1995-2000) and New Delhi (1992-1995).
Ms Kardel holds masters’ degrees in international public policy from John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (Washington, D.C., USA) as well as in interdisciplinary planning from Roskilde University in Denmark.
She has been awarded Knight First Class of the Order of Dannebrog by Her Majesty, Queen Margrethe the Second of Denmark.
She is married to Peter Heinlein and has two children.
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