Kaare Sandegren is a Norwegian

Norway

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 trade unionist, diplomat and member of the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

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. He has a master's degree from the University of Oregon

University of Oregon

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 and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1953. He completed additional studies in Norway in 1956 and started as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked at the Norwegian delegation to NATO in 1959 before becoming chargés d'affairs in Bangkok

Bangkok

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 in 1963 and 1964. He was an executive in the ministry from 1969. He became secretary of international affairs at the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions

Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions

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 in 1974. He sat as a deputy member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Norwegian Nobel Committee

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, but met regularly in 1990, 1993 and 1996.