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About Leidulv Namtvedt
- Leidulv Namtvedt (born 1 October 1950) is a Norwegian diplomat. He is a cand.mag.
- by education.
- He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976, and served as embassy counsellor in Russia from 1991 to 1995.
- He returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1996 and served as deputy under-secretary of state from 1999 to 2006.
- Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv described it as "one of the most powerful and influential positions a person can hold in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs".
- From 2007 he was the Norwegian ambassador to Finland.
- In 2009 he unsuccessfully applied for the position as Norwegian ambassador to the United Kingdom.
- After a period in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as head of department from 2012 he became the Norwegian ambassador to Russia from 2013 to 2018.
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