Mr. Knut O. Nesse was Norway’s trade commissioner for Canada and later the commercial counselor and consul for the Norwegian Embassy in Germany. He earned his MS in engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, and his MBA from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. A native of Norway, Mr. Nesse is multilingual in Norwegian, English, German and French, and has a special interest in the Vikings and Arctic explorers.