Norway’s former senior diplomat Terje Rod-Larsen acted as a conduit for Jeffrey Epstein as the convicted sex offender cultivated ties with global dignitaries, receiving favors in return, according to media reports.
Along with his wife Mona Juul, another diplomat now caught up in the turmoil following the latest release of millions of documents from the investigation relating to Epstein, Rod-Larsen rose to fame as one of the architects of the secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.
A sociologist by training, he held various roles at the United Nations: assistant secretary-general, special coordinator in the Occupied Territories, then special envoy for the Middle East.
The now 78-year-old Norwegian ended his career at the International Peace Institute (IPI).
It was in the 2010s, while heading the New York-based think tank, that he developed what appears to have been a close relationship with Epstein, who had already been convicted in 2008 for soliciting a minor.
