Tarald Brautaset

Tarald Osnes Brautaset (born 28 September 1946) is a Norwegian diplomat.

He is a cand.polit. by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973.[1] He was a member of the Norwegian delegation to the European Union from 1988 to 1994, during the negotiations for Norwegian membership in the Union (which were stopped after the Norwegian European Union membership referendum, 1994) and then the European Economic Area.[2] He then served as head of department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1997, and as an advisor from 1997 to 2000 and 2005 to 2008. He was the Norwegian ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2005 and later the ambassador to France from 2009.[1]

Brautaset lost the position in the United Kingdom after Bjarne Lindstrøm was removed from his office in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and installed in London instead.[3] Brautaset had long been seen as the future successor of Lindstrøm as permanent under-secretary of state, the highest-ranking servant position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, in 2005 it surfaced that Brautaset was seen as too old-fashioned for the post.[4] He soon started applying for new positions, but failed many times: he applied, unsuccessfully, for the positions of ambassador to both the United States and the European Union in 2006,[5][6] to Denmark in 2007,[3] and to the United Nations in 2008.[7]

Tarald Brautaset was decorated as a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2000.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Tarald Osnes Brautaset". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "60 år 28. september: Spesialrådgiver Tarald O. Brautaset" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 12 September 2006.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Strømmen, Karl-R. (16 February 2007). "Kamp om København". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). p. 16.
  4. ↑ Thomassen, Carsten; Gjerstad, Tore (12 January 2005). "Arvefølgen i UD knust av flodbølgen". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). p. 8.
  5. ↑ Strømmen, Karl-R. (7 November 2006). "Veterankamp om Washington". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). p. 16.
  6. ↑ "Første kvinnelig EU-ambassadør utnevnt" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 6 January 2006.
  7. ↑ Bjørgum, Lars Henrik (17 April 2007). "Syv vil bli utenriksråd". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). p. 14.
  8. ↑ Andreassen, Thorleif (27 February 2000). "London-ambassadør i "surprise party"". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Kjell Colding		 Norwegian ambassador to the United Kingdom
2000–2005 		Succeeded by
Bjarne Lindstrøm
Preceded by
Bjørn Skogmo		 Norwegian ambassador to France
2009–present 		Incumbent