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The Swedish Carl Tornell takes the lead of the EUJUST Lex mission, while waiting…

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(BRUSSELS2) The Swedish Carl Johann Törnell will officially take up the post of head of the European mission EUJUST Lex, deployed in Iraq. An assured function"until the appointment of a new head of mission“. The ambassadors of the COPS (the political and security committee) endorsed this decision on Tuesday (June 21).

An atypical profile

Carl has a rather atypical profile in European missions. Trained in finance and the private world, before radically changing profile ... and leaving for Iraq, in the European mission EUjust, where he climbed several rungs before taking, today, the head, even if it's temporary. This type of "internal" promotion is rather rare in European peacekeeping missions to be noticed.

A graduate (MBA) from the universities of Linköpings and Uppsala in 1981, Carl Tornell first worked in the private sector at Enskilda Securities, the investment bank of the SEB group (one of the main investment banks controlled by Markus Wallenberg) then as managing director of Cellpoint and finally as project manager at Bosmip, the program of European bosses (UNICE - Business Europe) intended to reinforce the notion of a single market in the countries of enlargement (firstly the countries of central Europe and Eastern, then the Balkans and Turkey).

He then moved on to the Eujust Lex Iraq mission as Head of Administration, then as Deputy Head of Mission and now as Head of Mission.

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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