on-Åge Øyslebø is a senior Foreign Service officer with extensive bilateral and multilateral experience, currently posted as Minister Counsellor to the Embassy of Norway in Canada, his wife’s home country. Former ambassador of Norway to the Democratic Republic of Congo and four other countries in the region.

Mr. Øyslebø has previously served at Norwegian embassies in Morocco, United States, Poland, Mozambique, and South Africa, as well as with Norway’s delegation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining the foreign service in 1989, he worked as a journalist and media adviser.

He holds a Cand.mag degree in political science and languages from the University of Oslo, with more recent credits in international election monitoring from the University of Bergen. He attended the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executive Course on National and International Security in 2018.