Erik Førner (born 24 September 1963, Bærum) is a Norwegian diplomat. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to the Philippines from 2014 to 2018 and to Switzerland from 2018 to 2022.[1]
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He was born in Oslo and is a cand.oecon. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991. He became subdirector in 2003 and head of department in 2004, before embarking on a counsellor position at the Norwegian embassy in Sweden from 2006 to 2011.
Foreign honours
edit- Philippines:
- Grand Cross (Datu) of the Order of Sikatuna (GrCS) (13 June 2018)
References
edit- ^ "Erik Førner". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 March 2019.