Name Mona Juul Role Politician | Spouse Terje Rod-Larsen Party Labour Party | |
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Children Edvard Larsen, Emma Larsen | ||
Lincoln Center Theater: Oslo (Discussion Only)
Mona Juul (born 1959 in Steinkjer) is an official in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former politician for the Labour Party. Juul hails from Sparbu, and was educated in political science.
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Oslo Accords
Along with her husband Terje Rød-Larsen, Juul played a key role in the 1990s Oslo Accords -- pivotal agreements on Middle East peace. The secret negotiations, largely arranged and facilitated by Juul and her husband, led to the peace agreement signing on September 13, 1993 in Washington D.C., of the first-ever agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Juul and the rest of the Oslo team of facilitators focused on the conflict between Israel and the PLO, knowing that a peace agreement would have to be created by the adversaries themselves and that a group acting as mediator would be vital in making appropriate arrangements for negotiations.
The 2016 Broadway play, Oslo by noted playwright J. T. Rogers, is a widely-praised dramatization of the previously unheralded role of Juul and her husband, and others, in developing the back-channel communications that (resportedly) saved the Oslo negotiations from collapsing.
21st century career
During the first cabinet Stoltenberg, from 2000 to 2001, Juul was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2001 to 2004 she served as the Norwegian ambassador to Israel. Since 2005 she serves as deputy director and ambassador in the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations in New York City. On September 1, 2014 she succeeded Kim Traavik as Ambassador to the United Kingdom.