Hans Blix
☼ Born on 28 December 1928, in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
BiographyHans 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.
In the role of actor
Blix Not Bombs – Hot Docs 2023 (01/05/2023)
The man responsible for ensuring there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq is interviewed two decades after the Iraq War in Blix Not Bombs. Hans Blix is a Swedish Diplomat assigned by the United Nations Security Council to perform weapons inspections in Iraq to ensure that the country was not harbouring Weapons of […]