Ambassador Leif Trana is a career foreign service officer who has held various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, including as Director in the Section for Trade Policy and Economic Analysis and Director in the Section for Organizational Development.

He has been posted to Riyadh, and twice to Washington.

Prior to his appointment as Ambassador to Singapore, H.E. Trana was the Deputy Director General in the Department of European Affairs and International Trade at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.

Ambassador Trana has a Master’s degree in Economics from the
University of Oslo. He is married with three children.