Norway’s Arctic Policy: Geopolitics and Cooperation in the High North

NIAS
Nature of the Event
K Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture
Speaker
HE Amb Hans Jacob Frydenlund
Norwegian Ambassador to India and Bhutan
Venue
NIAS Lecture Hall
Event date
08 June 2023, 09:45 hrs
Other details

About the Speaker
Hans Jacob Frydenlund is presently the Norwegian Ambassador to India and Bhutan.  Before coming to India, he was Director for UN Policy in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Frydenlund has served in Chile, at the Norwegian Mission to the European Union in Brussels, at the Norwegian Mission to the United Nations in New York and has been Norwegian Representative to the Palestinian Authority. He has worked for thirteen years in different capacities with conflict resolution in Africa. He has been Press Spokesman for International Development in the Ministry. Frydenlund was born in 1959, is an economist by education, is married and has three grown-up children.