Fostering Collaboration for a Low Carbon Future: An Interview with Anita Nergaard, Ambassador of Norway to Singapore

H.E. Anita Nergaard outlines the opportunities for collaboration between Norway and ASEAN to accelerate the energy transition. She also highlights the latest developments taking shape in Norway to meet national targets to be a low-emission society by 2050.

About H.E. Anita Nergaard, Ambassador of Norway to Singapore.

H.E. Anita Nergaard is Norway’s Ambassador to Singapore. A career diplomat, she joined the Norwegian Foreign Service in 1995 and has had various postings since. She was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Director of Russia, Eurasia and Regional Cooperation in the High North and Arctic from 2010, and Director of Security Policy, Crisis Management, Global Security Affairs and the US and Canada from 2005. Prior to her arrival in Singapore in August 2017, Ms Nergaard served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Norway to NATO in Brussels. An economist by training, Ms Nergaard started her professional career in the Central Bank of Norway in 1993. She holds a PhD Study Programme degree and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics.