Sten Lundbo

Sten Lundbo (born 1940) was the Norwegian Ambassador to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France 1995 - 2000 and to the Republic of Poland 2000 - 2005. He graduated with a MA in international economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1967, and joined the Norwegian Foreign Service the same year. His diplomatic assignments also include Bangkok, Paris and Geneva. Mr. Lundbo was member of the UN Expert Group of Governmental Experts on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development 1978 - 1981 and Chairman of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) 1992 - 1993. With Mr. Lundbo as its Chairman, the MTCR decided at its annual meeting in Oslo in July 1992 to expand the scope to include nonproliferation of UAV’s for all weapons of mass destruction, making the payload/range threshold much less rigid than the original 500kg/300km. Mr. Lundbo was also Chairman of the Working Group on Guidelines for the post COCOM regime (the Wassenaar Regime) 1993 - 1995 and Chairman of the Council of Europe Rapporteur Group on the Council's Relations with the European Union 1995 - 2000. He is now residing in Åsgårdstrand, Norway.