Asbjørn Eidhammer is a Norwegian political scientist, activist, and
diplomat. He served as the Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi from 1999 to
2004 and from 2011 to 2014. Between his missions to Malawi, he was
Director of Evaluation at the Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation for five years. From 1981 to 1984, he was President of the
Norwegian Council for Southern Africa, Norway’s anti-apartheid movement.
He has published books in Norwegian about politics and development in
Africa and Malawi.
