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About Elisabeth Walaas
- Elisabeth Walaas (born 27 April 1956) is a Norwegian civil servant, diplomat and politician for the Labour Party. She took her examen artium in 1975 in Tønsberg, and the cand.philol.
- degree in 1983 at the University of Bergen.
- She worked as a school teacher before and after graduating.She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland during the term 1989–1993.
- From 1983 to 1990 she was a member of Bergen city council.
- She was appointed a political advisor, from 1987 to 1989 in the Ministry of Culture and Science and from 1990 to 1992 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.In 1992 she was hired as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- In 1997 she was promoted to head of department, from 2001 to 2004 she was a diplomat in Brussels and in 2005 she was appointed Norwegian ambassador to Croatia.
- In September 2007, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, Walaas was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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