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About Vegard Ellefsen
- Vegard Ellefsen (born 2 November 1950) is a Norwegian diplomat. He is a cand.polit.
- by education and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981. After a period as embassy councellor at the Norwegian NATO delegation in Brussels from 1997 to 2002 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Here he served as senior adviser from 2002, deputy under-secretary of state from 2004 and director of politics from 2008.
- From 2010 to 2014 he was Norway's Permanent Representative to NATO, before being hired as chief of cabinet for NATO's new secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg.
- After one year he worked as a special envoy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Iraq/Syria affairs.
- He finished his career as Norwegian ambassador to Turkey between 2016 and 2019.
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