Ivar Lunde

Who was Ivar Lunde?

Ivar Lunde was a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Pavlovsk, and took the examen artium in 1927 and the cand.jur. degree in 1932. He started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1933, and was stationed in Paris, Moscow, Teheran, Ankara and Lisbon. From 1946 to 1949 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before spending three years as a counsellor at the Norwegian United Nations embassy, legation counsellor and chargé d'affaires in Athens and Tel Aviv. He was stationed in Athens; a separate station in Tel Aviv was not opened until 1958.

He was then the Norwegian envoy to Thailand from 1952, then ambassador to Turkey from 1956. As such he also acted as the ambassador to Iraq, Iran and West Pakistan. He was the ambassador to Finland from 1962, to the Soviet Union from 1966 and to Austria from 1970 to 1977. Here he was also the Norwegian permanent delegate to IAEA, UNIDO and MBFR.

After 1977 he was a special adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the same time he worked as a lawyer for refugees in Norway, and took up translation.