Håkon Wexelsen Freihow, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian diplomat
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About Håkon Wexelsen Freihow
- Håkon Wexelsen Freihow (6 April 1927 – 1 March 2019) was a Norwegian diplomat. He graduated in political science from the University of Oslo in 1956, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the same year.
- Early diplomatic posts include services at the embassy in Mexico, Spain and the NATO embassy in Belgium.
- He was an embassy councillor in Belgium from 1971, and a deputy under-secretary of state in 1979.
- He served as the Norwegian ambassador to Japan from 1981 to 1989 and Portugal from 1992 to 1995.
- As a side effect of the latter position, he was also the ambassador to Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau from 1993 and Morocco from 1994.From 1989 to 1992 he was a "general commissioner" for the Norwegian contribution to Seville Expo '92.
- It generated a lot of media coverage in the three years.
- After the project was finished, it was criticized for a budget deficit of 12 million kr.
- Freihow had been responsible for the daily affairs of the project, together with Helga Hernes and vice general commissioner Tore Tanum.He is son of Rev.
- Halvdan Wexelsen Freihow and the father of writer Halfdan Wexel Freihow.
- He died in 2019.
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