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Jan Braathu
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Jan Braathu, delivering his first report to the OSCE Permanent Council, 10 April 2025.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Jan Braathu, delivering his first report to the OSCE Permanent Council, 10 April 2025.
Biography
Ambassador Jan Braathu is the sixth OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, appointed in December 2024.
Prior to his appointment, Braathu served as Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia from January 2021 to December 2024 and Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo from October 2016 until December 2020.
Previously, he was Norway’s Ambassador to Kosovo and Albania, and Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. His other assignments have included serving as Deputy Director General and Head of the Division for Western Balkan Affairs(2000-2006). Braathu served as an Adviser on Balkan Affairs (1996-2000), and was also working with the Norwegian Foreign Ministry’s OSCE Chairpersonship-in-Office Section from 1998 to 2000 on Western Balkan issues. He held the role of First Secretary and Acting Counsellor for Economic Affairs at the Royal Norwegian Embassy to the Court of St. James’s from 1993 to 1996. He was also First Secretary at the Royal Norwegian Embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from 1990 to 1993.
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