Profile
Karl-Erik Norrman is founder (2002) and Secretary General of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP), a forum for 175 cultural personalities from more than 40 European countries. As a Swedish diplomat he served i.a. in Moscow, Peking, Geneva and Rome, was in charge of foreign policy, trade negotiations, development cooperation, UN negotiations. As ambassador since 1989 he was Swedish Commissioner General at EXPO 92 in Seville and in the 1990ies head of the Cultural Department, Foreign Ministry. Karl-Erik Norrman has also worked as opera singer and is author of several books and articles, i.a. about Democracy, Germany, China, India, UN, cultural politics, theatre, opera, design, food, European identities, football and transatlantic relations. He is member of several International Boards, e.g. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, London, Institute of Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin, Vizar Architectural Competition, Sofia, Music Mind Trust, Sussex, Axel Edelstam Foundation, Stockholm, Fondazione Love Difference, Biella. He is married to the German opera singer Doris Soffel, has two children and lives in Stockholm and Berlin.
