Bjørn Blakstad

Bjørn Blakstad (9 January 1926 – 11 July 2012) was a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Hisøy, and is a cand.jur. by education. He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1952. He became a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973. He then served as an ambassor; to Japan from 1976 to 1981, to Spain from 1981 to 1988 and to the Netherlands from 1988 to 1994. He died in July 2012 in Arendal.^[1]