Pierre Schori

Pierre Schori
Pierre Schori in August 2007
Born	14 October 1938  Norrköping Matteus church parish
Occupation	Politician
Position held	member of Parliament (1991–1994), member of Parliament (1994–1994), member of Parliament (1998–1998), member of the European Parliament (1999–2000)

Jean-Pierre Olov Schori (born 14 October 1938, in Norrköping) is a Swedish diplomat and politician. For many years he was international secretary in the Swedish Social Democratic Party and a close assistant to the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. He assisted Palme in the Socialist International Movement and took part in the struggle against the fascist rule in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Schori is among the editors-in-chief of Tiden, a theoretical journal of the Social Democratic Party.^[1]

He graduated from Lund University in 1962 with an M.A degree.^[2]

In April 2005 he was appointed Special Representative for

Schori was appointed election supervisor in Zimbabwe 2002 by the European Union. He was also suggested as the United Nations' administrator for Kosovo, but never became one after protests from the United States. They objected to Schori's prior support for Fidel Castro and other socialist regimes. Schori responded by accusing the Bush administration of "McCarthyism".^[4]

In March 2007 Schori was named as the general director of FRIDE, a defunct think-tank based in Madrid.

Schori is sympathetically portrayed as Peter Sorman in the fellow 1968-radical