Bente Angell-Hansen

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Who is Bente Angell-Hansen?

Bente Angell-Hansen is a Norwegian diplomant and current Secretary-General of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She is a cand.polit. by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982. She was a deputy under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister from 2000 to 2005, served as the Norwegian ambassador to Hungary from 2005 to 2007, and to the United Nations in Geneva from 2008.

In 2011, she was appointed the first female Secretary General of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2012, the magazine Stat & Styring named her as the sixth most powerful civil servant of the Norwegian state and the magazine Kapital named her as Norway's tenth most powerful woman.

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Born
Dec 15, 1951
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  • Norway

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on July 23, 2013

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