Bjørn Tore Godal
Appearance
Bjørn Tore Godal | |
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Minister of Defence | |
In office 17 March 2000 – 19 October 2001 | |
Prime Minister | Jens Stoltenberg |
Preceded by | Eldbjørg Løwer |
Succeeded by | Kristin Krohn Devold |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 24 January 1994 – 17 October 1997 | |
Prime Minister | Gro Harlem Brundtland Thorbjørn Jagland |
Preceded by | Johan Jørgen Holst |
Succeeded by | Knut Vollebæk |
Minister of Trade and Shipping | |
In office 15 November 1991 – 24 January 1994 | |
Prime Minister | Gro Harlem Brundtland |
Preceded by | Eldrid Nordbø |
Succeeded by | Grete Knudsen |
Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
In office 1 October 1989 – 30 September 2001 | |
Constituency | Oslo |
Personal details | |
Born | Skien, Telemark, Norway | 20 January 1945
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Sissel Rønbeck (1971-1981) Gro Balas (1988–present) |
Bjørn Tore Godal (born 20 January 1945) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994–1997 and Minister of Defence from 2000–2001 in Stoltenberg's First Cabinet. From 2003-2007 he was the Norwegian ambassador to Germany. Since 2007, he has acted as special adviser to the Norwegian State Department in international energy and climate issues.[1]
Honours
[edit]- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1994[2]
- Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit, 1995[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bjørn Tore Godal" (in Norwegian). Storting.
- ^ Galloway, Peter (2000). The Order of St Michael and St George. Third Millennium Publishing. p. 383. ISBN 0-9536969-5-2.
- ^ "BOE-A-1995-10107 Real Decreto 663/1995, de 21 de abril, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil al señor Bjorn Tore Godal, Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino de Noruega". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
Categories:
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Ministers of foreign affairs of Norway
- Ministers of trade and shipping of Norway
- Politicians from Skien
- Ministers of defence of Norway
- Members of the Storting 1985–1989
- Members of the Storting 1989–1993
- Members of the Storting 1993–1997
- Members of the Storting 1997–2001
- Norwegian politician, 1940s birth stubs