Ambassador Morten Wetland took up his appointment as Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations in New York in August 2008.
Wetland was previously State Secretary at the office of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg.
He has also been State Secretary to the former Prime Minister of Norway, Dr. Gro H. Brundtland, as well as her campaign manager for the candidature to become Director-General of the WHO (1998).
From 1998 to 2003 Wetland served as Norway’s Ambassador to Germany.
He has also been Assistant Director General at the Legal Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Secretary at the Ministry of Industry and Energy, and Senior Vice-President, Corporate European Affairs, for Statkraft AS, the state owned energy company.
Ambassador Wetland holds a graduate degree in law from the University of Oslo, where he specialized in international law.
He was born in Oslo in 1951, is married to Hege Nygard Wetland and has two children.