Background
He was born in Hadsel, and had the candidate.oecon.
He was born in Hadsel, and had the candidate.oecon.
Degree in economics. He was hired in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1951. He was a councillor at the Norwegian North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Organization of European Economic Cooperation embassy in Paris from 1955 to 1960 and a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1960 to 1965. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to Belgium, and also Luxembourg and the European Community, from 1965 to 1973, and then to France from 1973 to his death.