Anita Nergaard

Nergaard has been in the diplomatic service since 1995.^[1] She had her first foreign assignment from 1997 to 2000 as second secretary at the Norwegian embassy in Ankara, and then as first secretary at the Norwegian NATO delegation in Brussels. In 2005, she became a department head at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,^[1] first in the department for security policy, then in the departments for global security issues and crisis management, and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and from 2010 to 2012 in the department for Russia, Eurasia, and regional cooperation. From 2012 to 2017, she was the deputy representative to Norway's permanent mission to NATO in Brussels.^[1]

From 2017 to 2021, Nergaard was the Norwegian ambassador to Singapore, succeeding Tormod Cappelen Endresen. She was accredited there by President Halimah Yacob on October 25, 2017.^[4]

• August 20, 2018: Knight 1st Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit^[5]