# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-egeland
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:27:18.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-egeland"
name: "Jan Egeland"
slug: "jan-egeland"
description: "Jan Egeland is a Norwegian diplomat, political scientist, humanitarian leader, and former Labour Party politician who has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013. He served as State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 1997 and as United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from 2003 to 2006."
tagline: "Norwegian diplomat and politician (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Egeland_in_Pakistan_(128).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1957-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump