Odd-Inge Kvalheim

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Odd-Inge Kvalheim (born May 8, 1963 ) is a Norwegian diplomat . He was the Norwegian ambassador to Ethiopia from 2011 to 2014 .

Life

Odd-Inge Kvalheim comes from Bergen . He graduated from the Canadian Simon Fraser University in Burnaby , British Columbia in 1988 with a Bachelor of Business Administration and in 1990 from the Norwegian Business School in Bergen with a Master of Business Administration .

Diplomatic career

Odd-Inge Kvalheim has been working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1991 . He worked abroad at the embassies in Berlin , London and Abidjan and from August 2000 to October 2001 with the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations in New York . From October 2001 to May 2004 he was Deputy Director of the Department for Security Issues at the Foreign Office in the Foreign Ministry. From May 2004 to August 2007 he was Senior Advisor to Minister of State Kjell Magne Bondevik and Jens Stoltenberg in the Norwegian Ministry of State. From August 2007 to 2011, Kvalheim was head of the political department at the Norwegian embassy in Washington with the rank of Ministre plénipotentiaire .

On November 10, 2011, Odd-Inge Kvalheim became Norway's fifth ambassador to Addis Ababa since the embassy opened in 1991. During a visit to Semera , the capital of the Afar region , a Samara University park was named after him. In 2014 he was replaced by Andreas Gaarder .

From 2014 to 2017 Kvalheim was the international party secretary of the Arbeiderpartiet .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae for the Future Prospects in Afghanistan and the Region conference at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School from April 23 to 24, 2009 (English, archive version from December 28, 2013)
  2. ↑ Norway appoints new Ambassador to Ethiopia ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). News from December 13, 2010
  3. ↑ Announcement on the website of the University of Samara (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kvalheim, Odd-Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1963