Kristin Lund is a retired Major General in the Norwegian Army. During her distinguished military career she was appointed deputy commander of the Norwegian Army Forces Command and was the first female officer to be promoted to the rank of major general and was subsequently appointed as chief of staff of the Norwegian Home Guard. She was also the first woman to command a United Nations peacekeeping operation, serving as Force Commander for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus from 2014 to 2016 and later as Head of Mission/Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization from 2017 to 2019. She is a graduate of the AY07 Resident course at the U.S. Army War College and the first woman inducted into the War College International Fellows Hall of Fame.