Ambassador Magnus Robach began his career as a journalist. After joining the Swedish foreign ministry as a diplomat he was first posted to Cairo and later to Paris. He served as Press and Information Officer at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo in the early 1980s. As Ambassador, he served in Belgium and Brazil before returning to Japan in September 2014. Academic background: University of Göteborg (School of Journalism), University of Uppsala (Studies of Russian, Political Science of Eastern Europe), and University of Stockholm (History, Philosophy)