Mette Kongshem
Mette Kongshem (born 7 May 1941) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party.
She was born in Oslo, and is a cand.mag. by education. She started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976. From 1981 to 1983, she served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade as a part of the first cabinet Willoch. She was then a counsellor at the Norwegian emb*y in the United States from 1983 to 1990, before returning to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was the Norwegian amb*ador to the Czech Republic from 1996 to 1999, deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2002, Norwegian amb*ador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 2002 to 2006, and Norwegian amb*ador to Central Asia from 2006.