Background
BERG, Eivinn was born on July 31, 1931 in Sandefjord. Son of Morten Berg and Ester Christoffersen.
Diplomat politician State Secretary
BERG, Eivinn was born on July 31, 1931 in Sandefjord. Son of Morten Berg and Ester Christoffersen.
Norwegian College, of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway.
Degree at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. He enrolled there in 1953, and was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1956. From 1963 he served in the Norwegian delegation to General Agreement of Tariff and Trades and European Free Trade Association in Geneva, then as a head of department in the European Free Trade Association Secretariat.
From 1970 he was an embassy counsellor in Brussels, and negotiated the Norwegian membership in the European Economic Community.
However, the membership was stopped in a 1972 referendum in Norway, and Berg left the foreign service. He was the director of the Norwegian Shipowners" Association from 1973 to 1978.
He returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as sub-director, and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state. From 1981 to 1984 he served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a part of Willoch"s First Cabinet.
From 1984 to 1988 he was the Norwegian ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and from 1988 to 1996 he was the Norwegian ambassador to the European Union.
His time here was spent in negotiations. First from 1989 to 1993 negotiating the European Economic Area and from 1993 to 1994 negotiating a possible European Union membership. This too was botched after a 1994 referendum.
He also negotiated the conditions for the Schengen Area.
In 1996 Berg left the foreign service for good, and became an adviser for corporations such as Statoil, Norske Skog and Statkraft. He was an adviser ahead of the accession of Slovenia to the European Union.
His Norwegian residency was at Haslum, later at Ullernåsenior He died in a car accident in Stokke in September 2013.
Married Unni Berg in 1957.