Tom Loftus

Former U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway

Tom Loftus served as U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway from 1993 to 1998.

A member of the Wisconsin Legislature from 1977 to 1991, he was the longest-serving Democratic Speaker of the Assembly, from 1983 to 1991.

In 1990, he was the Democratic candidate for governor. Tom was special advisor to the director general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2005. He was a member of the University of Wisconsin’s System Board of Regents from 2005 to 2011, and in 2020 and 2021 was senior policy advisor to the University of Wisconsin’s System president.

Tom is on the board of the Outrider Foundation. A U.S. Army veteran, he is a University of Wisconsin Whitewater graduate and earned a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs.