Ingrid Schulerud

Who is Ingrid Schulerud?

Ingrid Schulerud is a Norwegian diplomat. She is the Deputy Director General for Central Europe and EEA-financing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is also the wife of former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

Schulerud is the daughter of Mentz Schulerud, an author and radio personality well known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of their home city of Oslo. Her aunt—Mentz' sister—was the children’s book author Anne-Cath. Vestly.

Ingrid Schulerud attended Oslo Cathedral School, where she met Jens when they were both 17. Here she defeated her future husband in the election for representative to the national students’ union, running for the Socialist Left Party.

After travels in Latin America, Schulerud wanted to work for developmental organisations, but was engaged by the Ministry of International Development to study the environmental impact of World Bank projects. This led her to break off her ongoing master's degree, and undergo the basic training for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which she finished in 1988.