Title: Vladimir Norov
Content:  From 1993 through 1995, Norov was the Consultant on administrative and legal issues of the Office of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In 1995-1996, he served as the First Deputy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and in 1996-1998 was the State Advisor to the President on intergovernmental relations and foreign economic relations. In 1998, he was appointed the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Germany which he held until 2003. From 2002, he also assumed ambassador's duties to Switzerland and Poland while in Berlin. From 2003 until 2005, he was the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. On December 29, 2004, he was appointed Ambassador to Belgium and returned to Uzbekistan in mid-2006. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan on July 12, 2006. Norov has the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He was awarded Uzbek national award Mekhnat Shukhrati. He speaks English, Russian and German, and is married with three children.
Title: Knut Mørkved
Content:  Knut Mørkved (29 March 1938 &ndash; 10 November 2017) was a Norwegian diplomat. He hailed from Steinkjer as a son of county forest manager Karl Mørkved and grandson of Lorents Mørkved. He took the mag.art. degree in political science and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1967. His early diplomatic stations were in Brussels, Cairo and at the UN in New York City. From 1976 to 1980 he served as the secretary of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. He served as Norway's ambassador to the Philippines from 1983 to 1987 and Egypt from 1988 to 1992, and after a stint as a special adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1996 he served as ambassador to Croatia from 1997 to 2001 before retiring. During his time in Cairo he also had side accreditations to Jordan, Syria and Sudan, and while in Croatia he also covered Bosnia and Hercegovina. He resided in Bærum and died in November 2017.
Title: Finn Kristen Fostervoll
Content:  Finn Kristen Fostervoll (born 26 December 1939) is a Norwegian diplomat. He was a journalist from 1962 to 1969, and later studied political science, with his MA degree taken at Carleton University in 1972. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972, and was promoted to assistant secretary in 1976, a position he held until 1983. He later spent much time working with nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and had diplomatic assignments in Germany, Portugal and at NATO in Brussels. From 1997 he served as the Norwegian ambassador to Turkey and Greece, and from 2005 to Cyprus as well. He retired in 2006. In 1999 he was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. He resides in Oslo.
Title: Jon Westborg
Content:  Jon Westborg (born 13 July 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat. He holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the Cranfield School of Management. Before becoming a diplomat he worked in the Lutheran World Federation, Save the Children Norway, the Strømme Foundation (as secretary-general) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. From 1996 to 2003 he served as the Norwegian ambassador to Sri Lanka, and from 2003 as the Norwegian ambassador to India. In 2007 Ann Ollestad took over. In 1999 he was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.
Title: Torolf Raa
Content:  Torolf Raa (born 2 May 1933) is a Norwegian diplomat. Raa was born in Bergen, and graduated BA from Copenhagen School of Economics. Raa was a postgraduate student at the College of Europe, and received his MA in Political Science, from UC Berkeley. Raa started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1963, and was the Norwegian ambassador to Iraq from 1983 to 1988. Raa was then the Norwegian ambassador to Indonesia from 1988 to 1994, chief negotiator to the WTO from 1994 to 1997, and ambassador to South Korea from 1997 to 2001. Raa was associate partner of Norscan Partners, Oslo, from 2001 to 2007.
Title: Erik Førner
Content:  Erik Førner (born 24 September 1963) is a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Oslo and is a cand.oecon. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991. He became subdirector in 2003 and head of department in 2004, before embarking on a counsellor position at the Norwegian embassy in Sweden from 2066 to 2011. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to the Philippines from 2014 and 2018 and to Switzerland from 2018.
Title: Tore Hattrem
Content:  Tore Hattrem holds a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo, 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. In 1997, he became the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN and the WTO in Geneva, and then Adviser in the United Nations Security Council 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. During this tenure, he acted as a facilitator to solve the LTTE-driven crisis. From 
Title: Bjørn Kristvik
Content:  Bjørn Kristvik (born 19 March 1928) is a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Nesset, and was a mag.art. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1955. He served as the secretary for the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs from 1966 to 1970, and was afterwards posted as a councellor at the Norwegian delegation to NATO in Brussels. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to Indonesia from 1974 to 1979, to Egypt from 1979 to 1984, to NATO from 1989 to 1992 and to Canada from 1992 to 1996.
Title: Asbjørn Skarstein
Content:  Asbjørn Skarstein (7 March 1922 – 22 October 1999) was a Norwegian civil servant and diplomat. He was born in Kristiania, and held the siv.øk. degree. He was hired in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an assistant secretary in 1956. He served as a councillor at the Norwegian embassies in Switzerland from 1960 and Belgium from 1962. In 1965 he returned to Norway; being a sub-director from 1965 to 1967 and deputy under-secretary of state from 1967 to 1975, both in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was then the permanent under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Shipping, the highest-ranking bureaucratic position, from 1975 to 1981. He then served as Norway's ambassador to Italy from 1981 to 1984. He also doubled as the ambassador to Malta. In 1985 Georg Kristiansen left as ambassador of France. Skarstein took over and served until 1988.
Title: Rolf Trolle Andersen
Content:  Rolf Trolle Andersen (born 14 March 1945) is a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Oslo as a son of diplomat Rolf Andersen and maternal grandson of Danish polar explorer Alf Trolle. He is cand.jur. from the University of Oslo and has the CEP from the Institut de Sciences Politiques. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. From 1973 to 1976 Trolle Andersen was posted as Secretary of Embassy in Canada. In 1979 he was named First Secretary of Embassy in Greece. In the 1980s he was Special Advisor for Polar Affairs and travelled to and reached the South Pole in 1985. He served as Norwegian Ambassador 

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