Jan Wessel Hegg

Jan Wessel Hegg (born 1 September 1938) is a retired Norwegian diplomat and ambassador.

He holds a Siviløkonom (literally "civil economist") degree from the Norwegian School of Economics.^[1] He served as embassy counsellor in Italy before becoming subdirector in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988.^[2] In 1992 he was promoted to head of department.^[3] He was then posted as Norway's ambassador to Greece in 1994,^[4] Indonesia in 1998^[5] and Latvia in 2004.^[6] He retired in 2004.^[1]

Hegg resides at Øvrevoll.^[1] He is a distant relative of Peter Wessel.