PROFILE

Ms Inga M. W. Nyhamar has been Norway’s ambassador to Japan since September 2019. She has a varied foreign policy background in the Norwegian Foreign Service, which she joined in 1991, mainly in security politics and bilateral affairs. From August 2017 until her present appointment, she served as Director for East Asia and Oceania in the Regional Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Previous postings abroad include Deputy Chief of Mission at the Norwegian embassy in Paris (2013 – 2017) and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Norwegian embassy in Tokyo (2004 – 2009), as well as Washington D.C. (1996 - 1999) and Prague (1993 – 1996).
In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has also served as Director of the Section for Disarmament and Non-proliferation affairs in the Department for Security Policy and the High North (2009 – 2013), senior adviser on global health issues in the UN department (2008 – 2009), and dep. head of the Section for Security Policy and North America (2001 to 2004).
Ms Nyhamar was born in Trondheim, Norway, 7 July 1964. She is a political scientist from the University of Oslo.