Mona Juul

Thematic expertise: Peace mediation, international security and disarmament

Geographic expertise: Middle East

Languages: English

Ambassador Mona Juul is an experienced diplomat and is currently Norway's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. She has also served as Norway’s Ambassador to the UK from 2014-2019. After joining the Norwegian Foreign Service in 1986, her first overseas posting was to Cairo in 1988, where she worked as a political attaché and second secretary, launching her diplomatic career. Together with her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, she was deeply involved in the secret negotiations that took place in 1993 between Israel and the PLO, which led to the signing of the Oslo Agreement. Ambassador Juul worked as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2001 during the first government of Jens Stoltenberg, before becoming Norway’s Ambassador to Israel in 2001. Between 2005 and 2010, she served as Deputy Head of Mission at Norway's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, where she chaired the First Committee that deals with issues related to international security and disarmament, during the UN General Assembly in 2006.