Tore Hattrem


Tore Hattrem is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party. In 2018 he was appointed as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the top civil servant in the ministry. He is President of the UNICEF Executive Board during 2018.

Biography

Tore Hattrem holds a Master degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo, and graduated from the Norwegian Officer Candidate School in 1982.
From 1994 to 1997, he was Second Secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi. In 1997, he became the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN and the WTO in Geneva, and then Adviser in the United Nations Security Council from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, he became Deputy Director General and Head of the Section for Peace and Reconciliation. In 2007, he became the Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka. During this tenure, he acted as a facilitator to solve the LTTE-driven crisis. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Ambassador to Afghanistan.
Tore Hattrem was formerly Ambassador of Norway to Sri Lanka, Sudan and Afghanistan, and Director-General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hattrem served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2016 and as the Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to 2018.

Personal life

Tore Hattrem is married to Marit Gjelten. They have 3 children.