Jon Hanssen-Bauer (born 5 April 1952) is a Norwegian social anthropologist, peace researcher and diplomat.
After taking his mag.art. degree in social anthropology at the University of Oslo in 1982 he was hired at the Work Research Institute. From 1988 to 1993 he worked at the Norwegian Work Life Centre, and from 1993 to 2005 for the Fafo Foundation. At Fafo he started as research director and then led its Institute for International Studies from 1998. [1]
The University of Oslo, until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University, is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Until 1 January 2016 it was the largest Norwegian institution of higher education in terms of size, now surpassed only by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked it the 58th best university in the world and the third best in the Nordic countries. In 2015, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it the 135th best university in the world and the seventh best in the Nordics. While in its 2016, Top 200 Rankings of European universities, the Times Higher Education listed the University of Oslo at 63rd, making it the highest ranked Norwegian university.
The Work Research Institute (WRI), formerly known as the Institute of Work Psychology, is a Norwegian government-owned social science research institute in Oslo. Its purpose is to "produce systematic knowledge on working life" based on industrial and organizational psychology and other social sciences. It is part of Oslo Metropolitan University and was formerly an independent state-owned research institute from its establishment in 1964 until 2014.
The Fafo Research Foundation, also known as the Fafo Foundation or just Fafo, is a Norwegian research foundation, owning a research institute: The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research. The institute conducts social research both in Norway and internationally. Fafo has offices in Oslo and Beijing.
Hanssen-Bauer had advised the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Middle East peace process since 1994, and was appointed as senior adviser there in 2005. After a stint as Ministry of Foreign Affairs envoy in Sri Lanka from 2006 he was a special envoy on the Middle East from 2009 before being appointed Norway's ambassador to Israel in 2015. [1]
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. The island is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. The legislative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, is a suburb of the commercial capital and largest city, Colombo.
Israel, also known as the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest. The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel's economic and technological center is Tel Aviv, while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, although the state's sovereignty over Jerusalem has only partial recognition.
