Herborg Fiskaa Alvsåker serves as Deputy Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations, a position she assumed on 8 September 2026.
Prior to this appointment, she was Director for Human Rights in the Department for Global Affairs at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2026, leading Norway's work on international human rights policy, gender equality, democracy and new technologies in multilateral fora. From 2019 to 2022, she served as Director in the International Department at the Storting (Norwegian Parliament), where she was responsible for Nordic-Baltic cooperation, relations with the European Union and involved in officials visits of the Speaker of Parliament.
Mrs Alvsåker has extensive diplomatic experience from a range of postings and leadership positions within the Norwegian foreign service. She served as Minister Counsellor for Human Rights at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in Geneva from 2016 to 2019. Before that, she was Senior Adviser in the Office of the Secretary General at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2016. Previous postings include serving as Counsellor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2009 to 2013.
Earlier in her career, she participated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' trainee programme from 2005 to 2007 and worked as Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning from 2001 to 2004.
Mrs Alvsåker holds a Cand.Polit. degree in Comparative Politics from the University of Bergen, Norway, and a Master of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), completed in 1997.
Herborg is married and has three adult children.