Ambassador Dagfinn Sørli is the Permanent Representative of Norway to the WTO and EFTA in Geneva since 2018.
Mr. Sørli has a degree in Political Science (Cand. Polit.) from the University of Oslo. He joined the Ministry of Trade and Shipping in 1986 and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, working on export promotion and bilateral trade with developing countries. He served at the Norwegian embassies in Riyadh 1990-1993 and in Washington D.C. 1993-1996. From 1997 to 2001 he worked on promoting exports and bilateral trade relations in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Back in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2002 he was the Head of the Globalization Project, and Director for WTO and OECD affairs from 2003 to 2014. He was Norway’s ambassador to Estonia from 2014 to 2018.
