Country: Norway

Tenure: 1946-1952

Biography: http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/trygvelie_bio.asp

Past Positions:

• Mediator of the border dispute between Ethiopia and Italy, over the former Italian colony, Somalia (1959)
• Chairman of Norway’s Board of Energy
• Governor of Oslo and Akershus (1955)
• UN Secretary-General (1946-1952) - elected the first Secretary-General of the United Nations (1 February 1946)
• Chairman of the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in London (January 1946)
• Chairman of Commission III for drafting the Security Council provisions of the Charter (1945)
• Led the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco (April 1945)
• Foreign Minister in the new Labor Party Government (October 1945)
• Appointed Foreign Minister of the interim coalition cabinet (1945)
• Elected a member of the Norwegian Parliament (1936 and was re-elected in 1945)
• Foreign Minister of Norway (February 1941)
• Acting Foreign Minister (December 1940)
• Minister of Supply and Shipping (outbreak of WWII)
• Minister of Trade and Industries (July to September 1939)
• Minister of Justice the Labor Party Government formed by Johan Nygaardsvold (1935-1939)
• National executive secretary of the Labor Party (1926)
• Legal adviser to the Norwegian Trade Union Federation (1922-1935)
• Assistant to the secretary of the Labor Party (1919-1922)
• Member of the Norwegian Labor Party Youth Organization (1911)

Education:

• Law Degree, Oslo University (1919)

General Information:

• Trygvie Lie died on 30 December 1968 at the age of 72
• Wrote In the Cause of Peace (1954)
• Supported intervention of UN armed forces in the Korean War resulting in the eventual refusal of the Soviet Union to recognize him as Secretary-General
• Supported the foundation of Israel and Indonesia