Tore Hattrem

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Tore Hattrem (born 23 August 1962) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party. In 2018 he was appointed as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the top civil servant in the ministry. [1] He formerly served as State Secretary and as Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations in New York, and was President of the UNICEF Executive Board in 2018. [2]

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Biography

Tore Hattrem holds a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo, and graduated from the Norwegian Officer Candidate School in 1982. [3]

From 1994 to 1997, he was Second Secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi. In 1997, he became the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN and the WTO in Geneva, and then Adviser in the United Nations Security Council from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, he became Deputy Director General and Head of the Section for Peace and Reconciliation. In 2007, he became the Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka. [3] During this tenure, he acted as a facilitator to solve the LTTE-driven crisis. [4] From 2010 to 2012, he was the Ambassador to Afghanistan. [3]

Tore Hattrem was formerly Ambassador of Norway to Sri Lanka, Sudan and Afghanistan, and Director-General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [5] [6]

Hattrem served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2016 and as the Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to 2018. During his tenure as Permanent Representative he was elected President of the UNICEF Executive Board for the term 2018, the second Norwegian after Torild Skard to hold that office.

In 2018 he was appointed as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ministry's top civil servant.

Personal life

Tore Hattrem is married to Marit Gjelten. They have 3 children. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Tore Hattrem utnevnt til utenriksråd
  2. ↑ UNICEF Executive Board
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Curriculum Vitae of Ambassador Mr. Tore Hattrem". Norway.no. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Mark Salter (10 January 2015). To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9781849046664.
  5. ↑ Offisielt fra statsråd 13. august 2010
  6. ↑ «Offisielt fra statsråd 8. juni 2012», regjeringen.no, besøkt 23. juni 2012.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Norwegian Permanent Representative to the United Nations
2017–2018		Succeeded by
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Preceded by Permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2018–		Incumbent
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