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Jan 27, 1954 Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Died on 08 May 2015 (aged 61) Aquarius
Leif Holger Larsen - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Leif Holger Larsen
- Leif Holger Larsen (27 January 1954 – 8 May 2015) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Stavanger, and was a cand.polit.
- by education.
- He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984.
- He was a subdirector in the Ministry from 2000, councillor-minister at the Norwegian NATO delegation from 2001 and head of department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2005.
- In 2009 he was appointed as a head teacher at the Norwegian Defence University College.In 2011 he started serving in South Asia, first as special representative for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- He had previously been present during the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack, which claimed the life of a Norwegian journalist, but survived.
- Larsen served as the Norwegian ambassador to Pakistan from 2014 until he died in a helicopter crash on 8 May 2015 in Gilgit, Pakistan.
