Kjell Eliassen

Kjell Eliassen (18 August 1929 - 4 December 2023) was a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Vefsn Municipality in Northern Norway and was master of law (cand.jur.) from the University of Oslo. He worked in the Norwegian foreign service since 1953, and was secretary (from 1958 to 1960) and counsellor (from 1967 to 1970) at the Embassy of Norway in Moscow. Between 1970 and 1977 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arbitrating with the Soviet Union, especially about the Barents Sea and Svalbard. He later served as the Norwegian ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1977 to 1980. He was permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1980 to 1984 and ambassador to the United States from 1984 to 1988, the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1994 and Germany from 1994 to 1998.