Background
VRAALSEN, Tom was born on January 26, 1936 in Oslo.
VRAALSEN, Tom was born on January 26, 1936 in Oslo.
Arhus School of Economics and Business Administration, Denmark.
He received a master"s degree in economics from the University of Århus, Denmark, before joining the Norwegian Foreign Service in 1960. He was the Norwegian Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1994 to 1996, to the United States of America from 1996 to 2001 and to Finland from 2001 to 2003. He received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Augustana College Commencement in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on May 21, 2000.
Vraalsen was also the Permanent Representative & Ambassador of Norway to the United Nations from 1982 to 1989.
From 1998 to 2004, He held the position of the United Nations Secretary-General"s Special Envoy for Humanitarian affairs for the Sudan. He is the author of numerous papers an articles on African socio-economic development issues and on conflict prevention and resolution, including two books on the United Nations, The United Nations - Dream and Reality (1984) and United Nations in Focus (1975), which he co-authored with.
He is currently chairman of Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research under the Norwegian Chairmanship, which will last until March 2010.
Norwegian dels, to United Nations General.