Tormod Petter Svennevig (24 May 1929 – 24 November 2016)[1] was a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Centre Party.
He was born in Eide, Grimstad, and took his Master of Arts degree in political science at the New School for Social Research in New York.
He started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1955, and was stationed at the embassy in SFR Yugoslavia from 1956 to 1958, Soviet Union from 1960 to 1963, the United Nations delegation from 1966 to 1968 and in the Soviet Union again from 1971 to 1972.
[3] From 1972 to 1973 he was a member of Korvald's Cabinet as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He has thus been one of the very few diplomats to hold an elected office in local politics in Norway.