Hans Blix
- Actor
Hans Blix was born in 1928 in the Swedish university town, Uppsala,
where his father served as a professor of chemistry. He followed in his
father's academic footsteps and studied at the universities in Uppsala,
Columbia (New York) and Cambridge where he received his Ph.D. Since
1963 he has served as a diplomat in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and the United Nations. In 2000 he was named the executive
director of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection
Commission (UNMOVIC). Prior to the 2003 war in Iraq he headed the UN
weapons inspectors who were sent to Iraq to find out if Saddam
Hussein's regime had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction.
Following the war he has left his position in the United
Nations.
