Biography
Mr Thorbjørn Jagland is the 13th Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
The Secretary General has the overall responsibility for the strategic management of the Organisation. Mr. Jagland was elected in September 2009. In June 2014, he was re-elected, and his second term in office commenced on October 1, 2014.
The former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland, was also the President of the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) and the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party. He is a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Speeches
Seminar on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the single European Court of Human Rights
Special Representative
Twitter feed
Letters
13 December 2018
Letter to the President of the Turkish Republic, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
06 August 2018
Letter to the President of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset
25 July 2018
Letter to the Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras
