Kim Traavik is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Oslo

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 and is a cand.polit.

Cand.polit.

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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 1977, and served as counsellor at the United Nations

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 embassy in Brussels

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 from 1994 to 1997. He was the Norwegian ambassador to OSCE

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 from 1997 to 1999, deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2001 and State Secretary

State Secretary (Norway)

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 from 2001 to 2005 in Bondevik's Second Cabinet. He was the Norwegian ambassador to NATO from 2006 to 2010, and to the United Kingdom

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from 2010.