Bengt Odhner

Bengt Arne Odhner (10 August 1918 – 20 November 1990) was a Swedish diplomat.

[1] Odhner served as an attaché in Tehran and Baghdad from 1947 to 1950 and was the second secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1955.

He was legation counsellor in Warsaw from 1959 to 1961 and director at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (head of international aid cases) from 1962 to 1964.

After that he was trade policy negotiator at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1982 and ambassador in Tunis from 1983 to 1984.

[1] Odhner was the secretary of the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1952, leader of Sweden General Export Association's commerce and industry delegation to East Africa in 1963, secretary, delegate or chairman of trade negotiations with various nations in 1953 and led special missions to such countries as China, North Yemen, Algeria and Indonesia.