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

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, the top civil servant in the ministry. He formerly served as State Secretary and as Permanent Representative of Norway to the

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, and was President of the

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Executive Board in 2018.

Biography

Tore Hattrem holds a master's degree in Political Science from the

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, and graduated from the Norwegian Officer Candidate School in 1982. From 1994 to 1997, he was Second Secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in

New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...

. In 1997, he became the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN and the

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in Geneva, and then Adviser in the

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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 Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

. During this tenure, he acted as a facilitator to solve the

LTTE The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; , ; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization, that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam ...

-driven crisis. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Ambassador to

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

. Tore Hattrem was formerly Ambassador of Norway to

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

and

, and Director-General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.«Offisielt fra statsråd 8. juni 2012»
regjeringen.no, besøkt 23. juni 2012. Hattrem served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2016 and as the Permanent Representative of Norway to the

from 2017 to 2018. During his tenure as Permanent Representative he was elected President of the

Executive Board for the term 2018, the second Norwegian after

Torild Skard Torild Skard (born 29 November 1936) is a Norwegian psychologist, politician for the Socialist Left Party, a former deputy permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former chairman of UNICEF. She served as a Member of Parlia ...

to hold that office. In 2018 he was appointed as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the

, the ministry's top civil servant.

Personal life

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hattrem, Tore Living people 1962 births Norwegian state secretaries Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian expatriates in India Norwegian expatriates in Switzerland Norwegian expatriates in the United States Chairmen and Presidents of UNICEF Ambassadors of Norway to Sri Lanka Ambassadors of Norway to Sudan Ambassadors of Norway to Afghanistan Norwegian officials of the United Nations Permanent representatives of Norway to the United Nations