Dagfinn Stenseth (28 August 1936 – 26 July 2019) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in

Øvre Eiker Øvre Eiker is a municipality in the traditional and electoral district Buskerud in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Eiker. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hokksund. The old municipali ...

, and had a bachelor's degree in political science. He was hired in the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...

in 1962, and was promoted to assistant secretary in 1973, sub-director in 1976 and deputy under-secretary of state in 1986. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

from 1979 to 1985, to

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from 1990 to 1994, to

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

from 1994 to 1997 and to

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from 1999 to 2004. In between he was a special adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 1999. Dagfinn Stenseth was survived by his great grandson Paul Stenseth, his wife, and two children Tina Marie Stenseth (model) and Paula Joanne Stenseth.

References

1936 births 2019 deaths People from Øvre Eiker Norwegian civil servants Ambassadors of Norway to the Soviet Union Ambassadors of Norway to Russia Ambassadors of Norway to Finland Ambassadors of Norway to Denmark {{Norway-diplomat-stub