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About Reginald Norby
- Reginald Semb Norby (21 May 1934 – 6 December 2012) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Lillesand, and took officer training before enrolling in cand.philol.
- studies.
- He graduated in 1960, and worked as a teacher at Drammen Commerce School before being hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1963.
- He served abroad in Bonn, West Berlin, Ottawa, Paris and Helsinki and at home as assistant secretary and head of department.He was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1989, and served as the Norwegian ambassador to France from 1994.
- He was due to be replaced by Knut Vollebæk in 1997, but as Vollebæk became Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norby remained in France to 1998.
- He was then the ambassador to Finland to 2001.
- He was also a member of KoordineringsrĂĄdet for sivilt beredskap from 1989 to 1994, having been a deputy member since 1985.
- In Bærum he was a minor ballot candidate for the Conservative Party in local elections. Norby was decorated, among others, as a Commander of the Order of St.
- Olav and a Knight, Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
- He resided in Sandvika, where he died in December 2012.
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