GODAL (Bjørn Tore)

- Born on 20 January 1945 in Skien (NO)

- Nationality: Norwegian

- Chairman of the Workers’ Youth League (19711973)

- General Secretary of the National Committee for International Youth Work (NIU) (1973)

- President of the Council of European National Youth Committees (CENYC) (19731975)

- Secretary for Research and International Affairs in the Norwegian Labour Party (19731980)

- Secretary of the Oslo Labour Party (19801982)

- Leader of the Oslo Labour Party (19821990)

- Member of the Norwegian Labour Party National Executive Committee (19831990)

- Member of the Standing Committee on Finance (19861989)

- Member of Parliament (19862001)

- Member and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs (19891991)

- Minister for Trade and Shipping (19911994)

- Minister for Foreign Affairs (1994–1997)

- Member of the Standing Committee on Defence (19972000)

- Minister for Defence (2000–2001)

- Adviser in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo (20012003)

- Ambassador at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin (20032007)

- Special adviser to the Foreign Ministry on energy and climate issues (2007–2010)

- Senior adviser at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) in Oslo (since 2007)

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