Åge Bernhard Grutle

Who is Åge Bernhard Grutle?

Åge Bernhard Grutle is a Norwegian diplomat and royal servant.

In his early diplomatic career he was stationed at the embassies in South Korea and the Soviet Union. In 1987 he was declared as expelled from the latter country, during a minor diplomatic crisis. He was a deputy under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2003, and the Norwegian ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2009. In 2005 he led the insight committee on how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. In 2009 Grutle was appointed as the Lord Chamberlain at the Norwegian Royal Court.