Fredrik Löjdquist is Director of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Löjdquist is a former Swedish diplomat, with previous missions such as special envoy and ambassador for the Swedish Presidency of the EU in Georgia 2009, ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 2012–2017 and, most recently, Sweden's first ambassador and special envoy for hybrid threats based in Stockholm 2018–2021.