Geir Grung is a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Bergen

Bergen

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, and was a cand.mag.

Cand.mag.

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 by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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 in 1969, was promoted to assistant secretary in 1977 and to spokesperson in 1980. He served in the Norwegian embassy in Paris

Paris

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 from 1984 to 1989, as deputy under-secretary of state the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1996 and as the Norwegian ambassador to Italy

Italy

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from 1996 to 2002.