Olav Bucher Johannessen

Olav Bucher Johannessen (born 28 October 1926) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Bergen, and has the cand.oecon. degree in economics. He was hired in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1955, and was promoted to special adviser in 1974. After serving as a State Secretary for Odvar Nordli in the Office of the Prime Minister from 1979 to 1981, he was the Norwegian ambassador to Finland from 1982 to 1985, to the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1990 and to Sweden from 1990 to 1994.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Olav Bucher Johannessen" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/Olav_Bucher_Johannessen. Retrieved 24 February 2011. 

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Dagfinn Stenseth	Norwegian ambassador to the Soviet Union 1985–1990	Succeeded by Dagfinn Stenseth

Persondata
Name	Bucher Johannessen, Olav
Alternative names
Short description	Diplomat, politician
Date of birth	28 October 1926
Place of birth	Bergen, Norway
Date of death
Place of death