Wegger Christian Strømmen

Strømmen in 2012Wegger Christian Strømmen (born 14 June 1959) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician who is the current Norwegian Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was Norwegian Ambassador to the United States in 2007–2013.

Strømmen was born in Larvik, Norway, and holds a master's of law degree from the University of Oslo.

He joined the Norwegian Diplomatic Service in 1984, and his first post was as executive officer (1984–86) in the Legal Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before he left to serve as a junior district court judge in Norway (1986–87).

He returned to the diplomatic service as deputy permanent representative to the U.N. Security Council and chairman of the Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations from 2000 to 2002, then acted as deputy permanent representative of Norway's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York from 2002 to 2005. He was appointed Norway's permanent representative and ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva in 2005 serving until 2007, when he transferred to the Washington posting. He has been Norway′s Ambassador to the United Kingdom since 2019. On 27 January 2023, he was appointed Norway's next ambassador to Finland from the date the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides.

He has lectured on international law at Harvard, Columbia, New York University, Georgetown, Stanford, the University of Bergen and University of Oslo. In addition, he has been a visiting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London from 2000.

He is married and has two daughters.