Johan Ludvik Løvald is a Norwegian diplomat.

He is a Ph.D.

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 by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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 in 1973. He served as deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1996, and counsellor to the embassy in Canada

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 from 1996 to 1999. From 2000 to 2003 he was the assistant to the permanent under-secretary of state. From 2003 to 2008 he was the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations

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 in New York City

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