Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Ambassador Ellen Svendsen assumed the post of Permanent Representative of Norway to the OSCE on 26 August 2024.
Ambassador Svendsen has been in the Norwegian Foreign Service since 2007 and has previously served as Deputy Permanent Representative at the Norwegian Delegation to NATO in Brussels (2020 – 2024) and as Deputy Director General at the Section for Peace and Reconciliation at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo (2020). She has also served in various functions at the Norwegian Commission on Afghanistan, the Norwegian Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority and the Norwegian Embassy in Kabul.