Martin Tore Bjørndal

Martin Tore Bjørndal (27 April 1944 − 11 April 2015) was a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Ulsteinvik.^[1] He graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.philol. degree in 1972, and started working in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973. He was the Norwegian ambassador to Chile for a period before returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[2] In 1999, he was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.^[3]

In May 2004, he was appointed as Norway's ambassador to Venezuela.^[4] His responsibility was extended to Colombia in January 2005,^[5] Haiti and Ecuador from February 2005,^[6][7] and the Dominican Republic in March 2006.^[8] In June 2008, he was moved back to Chile.^[9] In November 2008 his Chilean ambassadorship was extended to Peru.^[10]