Jon Ola Hauger Norbom (15 December 1923 – 12 April 2020) was a Norwegian economist and

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politician. During

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, in 1942, Norbom was imprisoned for a brief time at

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. Then, in November 1943, he was among the students who were arrested by the

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occupying forces in Norway as part of a general imprisonment of all male, non- NS students at the

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. He was imprisoned in the German concentration camp

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. From 1950 to 1952 he was the leader of the

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, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. He was State Secretary in the

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from 1967 to 1969, during the

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, and became Minister of the Finance in 1972–1973 during the

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. Norbom never held elected political office. He graduated as

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from the

in 1949, and studied international economics and

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at the

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1952–1953. He subsequently worked as a researcher with the

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, the

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and the

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(GATT) during the 1950s and 1960s. He was director in the International Trade Centre Unctad/Gatt 1973–1984, the Permanent Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs 1984–1993, and member of the United Nations Social Policy Committee 1987–1990. Norbom died in

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in April 2020 at the age of 96.SNL: Jon Ola Norbom bio
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1923 births 2020 deaths Ministers of Finance of Norway College of Europe alumni Norwegian state secretaries Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian economists Bærum politicians Norwegian resistance members Grini concentration camp survivors Buchenwald concentration camp survivors {{Norway-politician-1920s-stub