Johan Christian Georg Hambro (born 18 May 1946) is a Norwegian civil servant.

He was born in the UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 as the son of Edvard Hambro

Edvard Hambro

Edvard Isak Hambro was a Norwegian politician. He was the 25th President of the United Nations General Assembly and also served on the UN's International Law Commission from 1972 to 1977.- Biography :...

 and his wife Elisabeth (nee Raverat). His grandparents were C. J. Hambro and Gudrun (nee Grieg) on the paternal side and Jacques Raverat

Jacques Raverat

Jacques Pierre Raverat was a French painter.He married the English painter Gwen Darwin, in 1911, the daughter of George Darwin and granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They had two daughters, Elisabeth , who married the Norwegian politician Edvard Hambro and Sophie who married the Cambridge scholar...

 and Gwen (nee Darwin) on the maternal side. He is therefore of Norwegian (Hambro, Grieg), French (Raverat) and English (Darwin) descent. He is the great-great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

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He is a jurist by education, he served as director of the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority

Norwegian Pollution Control Authority

The Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency is a Norwegian government agency responsible for insuring that pollution, waste and other harmful substances don't result in health damage, inflict the well-being or hinder the production and reproduction of nature...

 from 1981 to 1986 and of Statskonsult

Statskonsult

Statskonsult AS is a defunct Norwegian government-owned company that provided management consulting services related to government restructuring and reform. It was created in 1947 as the Rationalisation Office , later the Directorate of Rationalisation. The name Statskonsult was taken into use in...

 from 1986 to 1992. From May to September 1986 he was a state secretary for the Minister of Justice in the second cabinet Brundtland

Second cabinet Brundtland

Brundtland's Second Cabinet was a minority, Labour Government of Norway. It succeeded the Conservative Willoch's Second Cabinet, and sat between 9 May 1986 and 16 October 1989. It was replaced by the Conservative/Centre/Christian Democrat cabinet Syse after the 1989 election...

. From 1992 to 1995 he was a sub-director in the private sector; in the company Saga Petroleum

Saga Petroleum

Saga Petroleum was a Norwegian upstream petroleum company established in 1972 that was acquired by Norsk Hydro in 1999. Since October 2007 it is a part of Statoil. The company was the only fully private oil company in Norway. It had partial ownership in 60 oil field licenses and was operator of 18...

. From 1995 to 2004 he was the CEO of the Research Council of Norway.