Major General Kristin Lund (born 16 May 1958) is a retired senior officer of the Norwegian Army.

[1][2] Lund attended the United States Army War College in 2006, graduating with a master's degree in strategic studies.

She succeeded China's Major General Chao Liu in the role on 13 August, and in doing so became the first woman to command a United Nations operation.

[3][4] After two years in Cyprus, Lund returned to Norway in July 2016 and was appointed an adviser at the Norwegian Defence University College in Oslo.

[2] Lund was the first woman to lead UNTSO, which had been formed in 1948 to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.