Leif Holger Larsen (27 January 1954 – 8 May 2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.
Leif Holger Larsen | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 January 1954 Stavanger, Norway |
| Died | 8 May 2015 (aged 61) Gilgit, Pakistan |
| Cause of death | Helicopter crash |
He was born in Stavanger, and was a cand.polit. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984. He was a subdirector in the Ministry from 2000, councillor-minister at the Norwegian NATO delegation from 2001 and head of department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2005. In 2009 he was appointed as a head teacher at the Norwegian Defence University College.[1]
In 2011 he started serving in South Asia, first as special representative for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and Pakistan.[1] He had previously been present during the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack, which claimed the life of a Norwegian journalist, but survived. Larsen served as the Norwegian ambassador to Pakistan from 2014 until he died in a helicopter crash on 8 May 2015 in Gilgit, Pakistan.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Leif Holger Larsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ Malm, Mari Sand (8 May 2015). "Overlevde angrepet på Hotel Serena, omkom i helikopterstyrt". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 May 2015.
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