Ambassadors of Norway to India

Per Gulowsen (28 January 1920 – 4 February 1994) was a Norwegian diplomat.
He graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics in 1943, and spent the rest of the war years in Sweden and the United Kingdom. He was hired in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1945. He was an attaché at the Norwegian embassy in the Soviet Union for two years, then an embassy secretary in France and legation secretary in West Germany before returning to Norway to serve as an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was an embassy counsellor in the Soviet Union, then from 1962 a press attaché in Sweden, chargé d'affaires in and embassy manager in Greece from 1967 to 1972 and sub-director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1977.From 1977 he was Norway's ambassador to India, also with ambassador tasks in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. His last posting was as Norway's ambassador to Turkey, until his retirement.

Tancred Ibsen Jr. (6 July 1921 – 11 February 2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of Tancred Ibsen and Lillebil Ibsen. He was the great-grandson of both playwright Henrik Ibsen and Nobel Prize laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. He had two daughters, Nora Ibsen and Hedda Ibsen. He finished Oslo Commerce School in 1939 before taking the cand.oecon. degree in 1943 and the cand.jur. degree in 1946. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1947, and was promoted to assistant secretary in 1960. He held various positions between 1962 and 1968, before serving as the Norwegian ambassador to Hungary from 1968 to 1973, to Egypt from 1973 to 1979, to the People's Republic of China from 1979 to 1982, to India from 1982 to 1986 and to Greece from 1986 to 1989.While serving in India he also covered Sri Lanka and the Maldives.He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav. After retiring he settled in Lillesand.