Rolf Trolle Andersen is a Norwegian diplomat and royal servant.

He was born in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 as a son of diplomat Rolf Andersen

Rolf Andersen

Rolf Andersen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Østfold during the term 1969–1973. In total he met during 5 days of parliamentary session.-References:...

 and maternal grandson of Danish polar explorer Alf Trolle. He is a cand.jur. by education, and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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 in 1971.

In 1979 he was hired as an embassy secretary in Greece

Greece

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. In the 1980s he was an adviser in polar affairs, and he travelled to and reached the South Pole

South Pole

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 in 1985. He served as the Norwegian ambassador to Romania

Romania

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 from 1990 to 1994, and then as the Middle East Coordinator in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994. In 1997 he was succeeded by Mona Juul

Mona Juul

Mona Juul is an official in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former politician for the Labour Party.She hailed from Sparbu, and was educated in political science. Along with her husband Terje Rød-Larsen she played a key role in the Oslo Accords...

. Trolle Andersen was the Norwegian ambassador to Greece to 1998, when he became the Norwegian ambassador to France

France

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. The would-be-ambassador to France Knut Vollebæk

Knut Vollebæk

Knut Vollebæk is a Norwegian diplomat and centrist politician . He is educated from the Norwegian School of Economics and the University of California, Santa Barbara....

, appointed in 1997, had instead become Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trolle Andersen remained in France until 2003, was briefly the Norwegian ambassador to Austria

Austria

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 in 2004 before serving as Lord Chamberlain at the Norwegian Royal Court from 2004 to 2009. In 2009 he became ambassador to Switzerland

Switzerland

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