Hans Jacob Biørn Lian
Male, Person
1942 –
Who is Hans Jacob Biørn Lian?
Hans Jacob "Jakken" Biørn Lian is a Norwegian diplomat.
He was born in Oslo. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1967. He headed the Norwegian delegation that negotiated the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. He was then a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1994, the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations in New York City from 1994 to 1997, and Norway's Permanent Representative to NATO from 1997 to 2002. From 2002 to 2004 he was a special advisor of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, tasked with monotoring the Middle East peace process. From 2005 to 2010 he was the Norwegian ambassador to Israel.
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