User:Ftannenfels/Alfred Grannas

Alfred Grannas is a german diplomat. He is German ambassador in Norway since 2018.

Career
Grannas entered the German foreign service in 1990.

His first posting led him to the German embassy in Lima, and then to the German mission to the United Nations in New York he also worked for the United Nations in Kosovo. During this time he also worked for the office of the High Representative for Bosnia Herzegovina. After a posting as the leader of the staff for strategy and steering in the German Foreign Office, the years of 2006 to 2010 brought him to the Embassy in Oslo for the first time.

Following this posting Alfred Grannas led the staff which was working on Humanitarian aid. In may of 2012 Grannas became deputy leader of the EU Mission in Kabul Afghanistan. He Returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin in 2013 and was appointed as Representative for the United Nations and International Order and after that as Representative for Infrastructure and Security.

In the middle of 2018 Grannas was sent to Oslo as German ambassador.

Grannas is married to a Norwegian since 2001 and has one son Fredrik Grannas.