Peter Taksøe-Jensen

Peter Taksøe-Jensen (born in 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish diplomat. He has been the Danish Ambassador to Japan since 2019. The Ambassador represents the government of Denmark in Japan and is responsible for the direction and work of the Embassy.

Before his current post, Ambassador Taksøe-Jensen was Denmark's Ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2015 and to India from 2015 to 2019. Before that he was Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs at the United Nations. He was appointed to this position by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2008. He replaced Larry Johnson.

Before joining the United Nations, Taksøe-Jensen served for more than two decades for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he joined in 1987. He worked in different areas in the ministry including the Legal Service, the Security Policy Department and the European Union Law Department and on various government commissions. He was posted to different places including to Vienna and to Brussels. Taksøe-Jensen has been Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs and Head of the Legal Service in the Danish Ministry since 2004.

In his capacity as ASG for Legal Affairs, Taksøe-Jensen was responsible for supporting the overall direction and management of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs.

Taksøe-Jensen obtained his law degree in 1986 from the University of Copenhagen, and joined the foreign affairs ministry's international law department thereafter. He is from a family of jurists, being the son of the late professor, dr.jur. Finn Taksøe-Jensen (1934 - 2020).

From 2016 to 2018, Taksøe-Jensen was chairman of a conciliation commission established under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to resolve a long-running maritime border dispute between Australia and Timor-Leste.

16 April 2007 he received the Order of the Dannebrog Knight 1st Class.