Guttorm Asbjørn Vik (born 28 July 1943) is a Norwegian diplomat. He grew up in

Brattvåg Brattvåg is a village in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the Norwegian mainland, along the west side of the Samfjorden. It is located about northwest of the villages of Vatne/ Eidsvik. The ...

, graduated with the siv.øk. from the

Norwegian School of Economics The Norwegian School of Economics ( no, Norges Handelshøyskole) or NHH is a business school situated in Bergen, Norway. It was founded in 1936 as Norway's first business school and is a leading teaching and research institution in the fields of ...

in 1971 and started working in the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The enti ...

in 1972. He was a deputy under-secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994. From 1995 to 2000 he served as vice secretary-genera of

EFTA The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The organization operates in parallel with the European U ...

. He then served as the Norwegian ambassador to

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...

from 2003 to 2007 and the

OSCE The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, prom ...

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from 2007 to 2011. He then became a senior adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his retirement in 2013. He resides at

Høvik Høvik is a suburban area in the municipality of Bærum, Viken, Norway, in the Oslo metropolitan area. Mainly a residential area, its population (2005) is 4,311. It is normal to divide Høvik into two parts; Nedre (lower) and Øvre (upper). Høv ...

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1949 births Living people People from Haram, Norway Norwegian School of Economics alumni Norwegian civil servants Ambassadors of Norway to Iceland Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe {{Norway-diplomat-stub