Ambassador Karl-Erik Norrman is founder and Secretary General of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP). As a Swedish diplomat for 30 years he dealt mainly with foreign policy, trade negotiations, cultural affairs, development cooperation, humanitarian affairs and the United Nations. As Ambassador since 1989 he was posted in Spain and Swedish Commissioner General at EXPO 92 in Seville and in the 1990s head of the Cultural Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Today he is lecturing in cultural diplomacy and European affairs at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, ICD, in Berlin.