Bjørn Skogmo is a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Namsos

Namsos

is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Other villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Klinga, Ramsvika, Skomsvoll, and Spillum....

, and is a cand.polit.

Cand.polit.

Candidatus rerum politicarum , Candidata rerum politicarum , abbreviated cand.polit., is an academic degree within the fields of social sciences issued under the old education system in Denmark and Norway.-Denmark:...

 by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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 in 1969. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations

United Nations

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 in Geneva

Geneva

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 from 1994 to 2002, assisting permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2005 and Norwegian ambassador to France

France

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from 2005 to 2009.