Ambassador Juholt been a member of the Swedish parliament from 1994 to 2016 and member of the parliamentary committee on defence issues until 2011, serving as its Chairman for one year. Between 1995 and 2002 Ambassador Juholt was also appointed as adviser to the Minister of Defence and Delegate to the parliamentarian summits of NATO between 1995 and 2011. Ambasssador Juholt served as Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden between 2011 and 2012. He was appointed as Swedish ambassador to the Republic of Iceland from 2017 until 2020 when he was appointed as Sweden’s Ambassador to South Africa.