Rune Resaland (born 4 May 1956) is a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in

Ullensaker Ullensaker is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Jessheim. I ...

and is a

cand.jur. Candidate ( or ) is the name of various academic degrees, which are today mainly awarded in Scandinavia. The degree title was phased out in much of Europe through the 1999 Bologna Process, which has re-formatted academic degrees in Europe. The de ...

by education. He 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 1986, and served as subdirector from 1997 and secretary of the parliamentary

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs () is a defunct committee of the Norwegian Parliament responsible for matters related to foreign policy, development assistance, international agreements, Svalbard and the Norwegian polar regions The pola ...

from 1999. He moved abroad as embassy counsellor in the United States from 2003 to 2007, returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as senior adviser, head of department and deputy under-secretary of state between 2007 and 2018. In 2018 he became the Norwegian ambassador to Russia.

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1956 births Living people People from Ullensaker Norwegian civil servants Norwegian expatriates in the United States Ambassadors of Norway to Russia {{Norway-diplomat-stub