Gunvør Balle

Gunvør Balle (born 31 March 1967) is a Faroese Republic politician and diplomat who served in the Løgting from 2011 until 2015 and is currently serving in Tórshavn City Council. Prior to her entry in politics, she worked in sales management and was a Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomat who served as the Faroe Islands' envoy to Iceland from 2007 until 2010. Biography Gunvør Balle was born on 31 March 1967 in Torshavn; her mother Margreta Mohr was Faroese and her father Sten Balle was a manager from Denmark.

After spending two years with her friends traveling around the world, she then was educated at Copenhagen Business School, where she was part of their SPRØK programme and obtained her (candidata mercaturae) degree in 1993, and she briefly worked in Danish loudspeaker manufacturer Peerless' sales department. She later spent a few years living in Qatar with her husband , a petrol engineer (and future rector of the University of the Faroe Islands) who worked for Maersk Oil as part of their dealings in the area. Afterwards she was one of the co-founders of P/F Atlantic Biotechnology on Oyri. She was part of the country's West Nordic Council delegation, as well as the cultural, judiciary, and welfare committees. She did not run in the 2015 Faroese general election. Later, she was later elected to Tórshavn City Council in 2016, receiving second place in the 2016 Tórshavn City Council elections, and she was elected as deputy mayor the same year. She also served within the council's education committee, having left by 2020.

She has four children with her husband and she is the daughter-in-law of marine biologist .