Rolf Holmboe currently serves as Ambassador Designate of Denmark to Russia (2026-).
Ambassador Holmboe has dealt extensively with combined security, political and development interventions in fragile states and conflict situations. Previously, he served as Head of the EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine - 2023–2026) and as Ambassador of Denmark to Mali (2020-2023). He served as Ambassador of Denmark to Pakistan (2017-2020), and to Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan (2012-2015).
He held the post as Director of Strategy and Policy Planning in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010-12) and as Head of Stabilisation (2009-2010). He was a research fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (2015-2017).
As Head of Mission of the Danish Representative Office in Ramallah, he served as Denmark's Representative to the Palestinian Authority as well as to UNRWA - the UN Organization for Palestine Refugees - with overall responsibility for political relations as well as for Danish development and other interventions in the West Bank and Gaza (2005-2009).
As an external lecturer, he has taught conflict studies in fragile states at the Institute of Political Science, Copenhagen University, and he has written several articles on that subject.
In his capacity as an Army military reserve officer, he has been deployed to conflict areas and has served as an arms control inspector under the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty.
Rolf Holmboe holds a Masters Degree in Political Science and a Supplementary Degree in Arabic Studies from the University of Aarhus (1992).