Knut Hauge (diplomat)

Knut Hauge (born 28 July 1953) is a Norwegian diplomat.

He took the cand.philol. degree in his education and started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980. He served as consul-general in Murmansk from 1993 to 1994, as the Norwegian ambassador to Poland from 2005 to 2008, and Norwegian ambassador to Russia from 2008 to 2013.^[1] He presented his credentials to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on 27 February 2009.^[2] In 2014 he was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Norway to NATO, returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2018 as a deputy under-secretary of state.^[1]