title: John Arthur Lunde
text: # John Arthur Lunde
  
  John Arthur Lunde (born 14 March 1948) is a Norwegian civil servant.
  
  He holds the cand.mag. degree. He was hired in the Ministry of Defence in 1974, and was in the Norwegian NATO delegation from 1976 to 1980. He was a deputy under-secretary of state from 1992 to 1995, and the permanent under-secretary of state (the highest-ranking civil servant position) from 1995 to 2008.
  
  