Espen Barth Eide
| Espen Barth Eide | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 21 September 2012 – 16 October 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Preceded by | Jonas Gahr Støre |
| Succeeded by | Børge Brende |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 11 November 2011 – 21 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Preceded by | Grete Faremo |
| Succeeded by | Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 May 1964 Oslo, Norway |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Espen Barth Eide (born 1 May 1964 in Oslo) is a Norwegian political scientist and managing director at World Economic Forum. He served as Norway's Minister of Defense in Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet from 11 November 2011 to 21 September 2012, and then as Minister of Foreign Affairs to 16 October 2013. Since December 2013, Espen Barth Eide has served as a member of the Board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) where he is currently Vice Chair of the Board and Chairman of the Operations Committee. On 22 August 2014, Espen Barth Eide was appointed United Nations Special Adviser on Cyprus.
Eide, the son of the jurist, human rights expert and author Asbjørn Eide (b. 1933) and Professor of nutritional physiology Wenche Barth Eide (b. Barth 1935), attended the Oslo Cathedral School and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1993 with the cand.polit. degree. He also studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Eide joined the Labour Party 1979, and in the 1980s held several positions in Workers' Youth League (Labour Party Youth). He was secretary-general of the European Movement Norway in 1992 and joined the campaign for Norway to join the EU in 1994.
In 1993, Eide began working as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in the United Nations Program. He became leader of this program in 1996, later working as an advisor for the panels on Threats, Challenges and Change and the Report on Integrated Missions. In 2002 he became the director NUPI's Department of International Politics., which he ran until 2005.
During Jens Stoltenberg's first term as Prime Minister, from 2000 to 2001, Eide served as a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. When the Stoltenberg's second cabinet took office after the 2005 elections, Eide became a Deputy Minister of Defense. In 2010 he again became a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 11 November 2011, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Defense. On 21 September 2012, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, succeeding Jonas Gahr Støre.
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