Wegger Christian Strømmen (born 14 June 1959) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Christian Democratic Party.

He was born in Larvik

Larvik

is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. Larvik kommune - has about 41 364 inhabitants and covers 530 km2....

, and is a cand.jur. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway...

 in 1988. From 1993 to 1995 he was a special advisor to Thorvald Stoltenberg

Thorvald Stoltenberg

Thorvald Stoltenberg is a former Norwegian politician. His ancestors stem from Northern Germany and emigrated to Norway in the 17th century. He served as Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs in two Labour governments.From 1989 to 1990 he was appointed Norwegian Ambassador to the UN...

. He then spent one year as a sub-director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then two years as a lawyer. From 1999 to 2000 he served as a State Secretary

State Secretary (Norway)

In Norway, a State Secretary is a partisan political position within the executive branch of government. Contrary to the position Secretary of State in many other countries, the Norwegian State Secretary does not head his or her Ministry, rather, they are second in rank to a Minister...

 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a part of the Bondevik's First Cabinet. He then served at the Norwegian United Nations

United Nations

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 delegation in New York City from 2000 to 2004. He was the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva

Geneva

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 from 2004 to 2007, and to the United States

United States

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from 2008.