Jon Hanssen-Bauer (born 5 April 1952) is a Norwegian social anthropologist, peace researcher and diplomat.
degree in social anthropology at the University of Oslo in 1982 he was hired at the Work Research Institute.
At Fafo he started as research director and then led its Institute for International Studies from 1998.
[1] Hanssen-Bauer had advised the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Middle East peace process since 1994, and was appointed as senior adviser there in 2005.
After a stint as Ministry of Foreign Affairs envoy in Sri Lanka from 2006 he was a special envoy on the Middle East from 2009 before being appointed Norway's ambassador to Israel in 2015.