Name: Wegger Christian STROMMEN
Date of Birth: 14th June 1959
Place of Birth: Larvik, Norway
Nationality: Norwegian
Marital Status: Married to: Rev. Cecilie J. STROMMEN,
two daughters
Wegger Chr. Strommen has a distinguished career in the Norwegian Foreign Service including positions as Deputy Foreign Minister and representing Norway in the United Nations Security Council. Ambassador Strommen has also practised law as a judge and as an attorney.
October 2007: Ambasssador of Norway to the US
2005 to 2007: Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Norway to
the UN and other international
organisations in Geneva.
2002 to 2005: Ambassador and Deputy
Permanent Representative
Mission of Norway to the
United Nations; New York
2000 to 2002: Ambassador and Deputy
Representative of Norway in
the United Nations Security Council;
Chairman of the Security Council Working
Group on Peacekeeping Operations
2000: Visiting Fellow, International Institute for
Strategic Studies (IISS) London;
1999 to 2000: Deputy Foreign Minister (State Secretary)
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
1998 to 1999: Special Advisor
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1998: Partner
The Law Firm of Wiersholm, Mellbye & Beech;
1996: Attorney-at-Law,
The Law Firm of Wiersholm, Mellbye & Beech;
1995 – 1996: Head of Division, Legal Departmen,
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1993 – 1995 Legal Advisor to Lord Owen and
Mr. Stoltenberg, the Co-Chairman
of the European Union/United Nations
International Conference on the
Former Yugoslavia
1991 to 1993: First Secretary, Permanent Mission
of Norway, Geneva
1988 to 1991: First Secretary, Norwegian Embassy,
Tel Aviv
1986 to 1987: Junior District Court Judge,
Heggen og Froland District Court,
Mysen, Norway
1984 to 1986: Executive Officer, Legal Department,
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1984: Admitted to the Norwegian Diplomatic
Service
1984: Cand. jur. (Master of Law),
University of Oslo Law School.
Lecturer in International Law at:
- Harvard Law School , Cambridge, MA
- Columbia Law School, New York,
- New York University School of Law, New York,
- University of Bergen, Norway
- University of Oslo, Norway
Author of articles on international law, constitutional law and human rights.
Royal Norwegian Embassy