Lars Faaborg-Andersen is Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the State of Israel since 2013. He has a distinguished career, spanning almost thirty years in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He headed the Ministry’s Middle East and North Africa Department (2000-2003) whereas he initiated the original “Road Map for the MEPP”, eventually approved by the Quartet. He served as Ambassador of Denmark to the United Nations (2003-2008) and as Ambassador of Denmark to the Political and Security Committee of the EU (2008-2013).