Margit Fredrikke Tveiten (born 27 August 1961) is a Norwegian diplomat. She was born in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...

and is a

cand.mag. Candidatus magisterii (male), or candidata magisterii (female), abbreviated as cand.mag., is an academic degree currently awarded in Denmark. The degree is officially translated into English as Master of Arts and currently requires 5 years of stud ...

and cand.jur. by education. She started working for the

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Norwegian (Bokmål): ''Det kongelige utenriksdepartement''; Norwegian (Nynorsk): ''Det kongelege utanriksdepartement'') is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June ...

in 1988, and had a stint in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1992 to 1994. From 2004 to 2007 she led the Parliament of Norway International Secretariat, before embarking on a period as Norwegian ambassador to

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

from 2007 to 2010. After four years as subdirector and three years as deputy under-secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs she served as the Norwegian ambassador to

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

from 2017.

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1961 births Living people People from Kristiansand Norwegian civil servants Norwegian women civil servants Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Ambassadors of Norway to Iceland Ambassadors of Norway to Italy Norwegian women ambassadors {{Norway-diplomat-stub