Torbjørn Frøysnes (born 11 December 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the
Conservative Party.
He was born in
Arendal, and is a
cand.polit. by education. He started working for the
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973, but became a
State Secretary from 1984 to 1986 as a part of the
second cabinet Willoch. He served as a deputy representative to the
Norwegian Parliament
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from
Aust-Agder during the term 1989–1993. He chaired the Norwegian Tourist Board from 1988 to 1995, and then served at the Norwegian embassy in
Bonn
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from 1995 to 1999. After another period in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 2003 he became the Norwegian ambassador to the
Council of Europe.
References
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1946 births
Living people
Norwegian civil servants
Ambassadors of Norway to West Germany
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
Deputy members of the Storting
Aust-Agder politicians
People from Arendal