Resident staff:

Kjetil Paulsen  Ambassador

Herman Baskår  Embassy Counsellor

Ines Nezirovic Trainee

                            Cv of ambassador Kjetil Paulsen

Name: Mr. Kjetil Paulsen

Born: 30 March 1956

Married to Ms. Pia Gjermundsen, two children

1983

Master of Art (history). University of Oslo.

1983-85

Trainee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1985-88

Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN, New York (economic affairs).

1988-90

First Secretary, Embassy of Norway, Lagos, Nigeria (political and economic affairs).

1990-91

First Secretary, Embassy of Norway, Bucharest, Romania (political and economic affairs).

1991-94

Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of Norway, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Acted as well as the Resident Permanent Representative of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).

1994-2000

Head of Division, Political Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo (humanitarian and human rights affairs).

2000-2002

Deputy Director General, Department for Development Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo.

 2002-2006 

Minister and Deputy Permanent Representative,  Permanent Mission of Norway, Geneva (United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament).

From 22. August 2006

Senior adviser, Department for Security Policy and the High North

From 1. September 2009

Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia.