Oda Sletnes

Who is Oda Sletnes?

Oda Helen Sletnes is a Norwegian diplomat.

She was born in Oslo, and is a siv.ing. by education. She started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981. She served in the Norwegian European Union delegation in Brussels from 1997 to 2001. After a period as deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006, she was the Norwegian ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2011. In 2011 she was appointed as a college president of the European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority.

She is decorated as a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, Grand Knight of the Order of the Falcon and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.