Ambassador
Ambassador Sulev Kannike
Sulev Kannike is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to the State of Israel since August 2016.
Sulev Kannike was born in 1953. He began his diplomatic career in 1995. From 1995-1996 Kannike was the director general of the Foreign Ministry’s legal department, from 1997-1998 he was the director general of the policy planning department, and from 1998-1999 he was the director general of the Foreign Ministry’s political department. From 1999 until 2003 Kannike was Estonia’s Ambassador to NATO. From 2003-2005 Kannike served at the Undersecretary for political affairs at the Ministry of Defence and from 2005-2007 as the Foreign Ministry’s counsellor for global security matters. From 2007 until 2011 he was the Estonian Ambassador to the European Council. Until the fall of 2012, Kannike was the Foreign Ministry’s undersecretary for political affairs and thereafter Estonia’s ambassador to Ukraine. As of August on this year, Kannike is Estonia’s Ambassador to Israel.