Rolf Trolle Andersen
Rolf Trolle Andersen (born 14 March 1945) is a Norwegian diplomat and royal servant.
He was born in Oslo[1] as a son of diplomat Rolf Andersen and maternal grandson of Danish polar explorer Alf Trolle.[2] He is a cand.jur. by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971.[1]
In 1979 he was hired as an embassy secretary in Greece. In the 1980s he was an adviser in polar affairs, and he travelled to and reached the South Pole in 1985.[2] He served as the Norwegian ambassador to Romania from 1990 to 1994, and then as the Middle East Coordinator in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994.[1] In 1997 he was succeeded by Mona Juul. Trolle Andersen was the Norwegian ambassador to Greece[3] to 1998, when he became the Norwegian ambassador to France.[4] The would-be-ambassador to France Knut Vollebæk, appointed in 1997, had instead become Minister of Foreign Affairs,[2][5] Trolle Andersen remained in France until 2003, was briefly the Norwegian ambassador to Austria in 2004 before serving as Lord Chamberlain at the Norwegian Royal Court from 2004 to 2009. In 2009 he became ambassador to Switzerland.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Rolf Trolle Andersen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hegtun, Helvor (25 September 2004). "Slottets Trolle". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 16.
- ↑ Skjærstad, Atle M. (29 January 1997). "Mona Juul hjem til UD". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). p. 6.
- ↑ "Nytt fra statsråd". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 24 January 1998. p. 11.
- ↑ Hellberg, Lars. "Knut Vollebæk". In Helle, Knut. Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
| Preceded by Reginald Norby |
Norwegian ambassador to France 1998–2003 |
Succeeded by Sven-Erik Svedman |
| Preceded by Lars Petter Forberg |
Lord Chamberlain of Norway 2004–2009 |
Succeeded by Åge Bernhard Grutle |