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Per Bengt Magnus Ingemar Rösiö (born 14 May 1927) is a Swedish diplomat and author.
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Career
Rösiö was born in Åmål, Sweden, the son of district veterinarian Birger Rösiö and his wife Jonita (née Hedin). He received a Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1949 and carried out university studies in Dublin, Vienna, The Hague and Paris from 1947 to 1950 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1951. Rösiö served at the legation in New Delhi in 1953, at the Consulate General in Bombay in 1954 where he was Trade Commissioner from 1955 to 1958 and where he became vice consul in 1957. He was embassy secretary in Beijing from 1958 to 1959 and secretary at the Swedish Foreign Ministry from 1959 to 1961. There Rösiö was secretary of the administration investigation for aid to developing countries in 1960.
He was then first vice consul in Léopoldville from 1961 to 1962. Rösiö was administrative director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation from 1962 to 1964, first embassy secretary in Washington, D.C. from 1964 to 1965, United Nations Deputy Resident Representative in Algiers in 1965 and embassy counsellor in Khartoum from 1966 to 1969. He was consul general in Houston from 1969 to 1971 and deputy director at the Foreign Ministry from 1972 to 1973. Rösiö was ambassador in Jeddah from 1974 to 1977, ambassador in Islamabad from 1977 to 1979, ambassador in Prague from 1979 to 1981 and ambassador in Kuala Lumpur (also accredited to Rangoon) from 1981 to 1985. He was then consul general in Montreal from 1985 to 1990 when he was appointed regional ambassador for French-speaking Central Africa at the Swedish Foreign Ministry. He left the post in 1992.
In 1991, following reports in the British press about a Belgian pilot who admitted that he shot down Dag Hammarskjöld's plane on 18 September 1961 (while Rösiö served as consul in Léopoldville), the Swedish government decided to launch a one-man inquiry which was conducted by Rösiö. He pointed out a number of questions in previous reports, but still came to the conclusion that the crash was an accident. Since it was submitted in 1993 it has served as Sweden's official stance on what happened in Ndola. Rösiö have later in the media doubted his own conclusions about Hammarskjöld's death.
Personal life
In 1955 he married Joan Binns (born 1930). They divorced and in 1969 Rösiö married Görel Pernvik, daughter of the managing director Allan Pernvik and Barbro (née Hermansson).