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Margit Fredrikke Tveiten (born 27 August 1961) is a Norwegian diplomat. She was born in
Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...
and is a cand.mag. and cand.jur. by education. She started working for the
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Norwegian or ''Utenriksdepartementet''; or ''Utanriksdepartementet''; UD) is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June 7, 1905, the same day the Parliament of ...
in 1988, and had a stint in the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, shortened to EBRD ( French: ''Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement'' or ''BERD''), is an international financial institution founded in 1991 in Paris. As a multilat ...
from 1992 to 1994. From 2004 to 2007 she led the
Parliament of Norway The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional represe ...
International Secretariat, before embarking on a period as Norwegian ambassador to
Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...
from 2007 to 2010. After four years as subdirector and three years as deputy under-secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs she served as the Norwegian ambassador to
Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
from 2017.


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1961 births Living people People from Kristiansand Norwegian civil servants Norwegian women civil servants Norwegian expatriates in England Ambassadors of Norway to Iceland Ambassadors of Norway to Italy Norwegian women ambassadors {{Norway-diplomat-stub