Åge Bernhard Grutle

Åge Bernhard Grutle (born 19 June 1952) is a Norwegian diplomat and royal servant.

[1] In his early diplomatic career he was stationed at the embassies in South Korea and the Soviet Union.

In 2005 he led the insight committee on how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

[2] In 2009 Grutle was appointed as the Lord Chamberlain at the Norwegian Royal Court, but in 2015 he returned to the foreign service as ambassador to Finland.

[1] The Grand Cross of the Order of St Olav was bestowed upon Grutle on 26 August 2015.