Marianne Borgen (born 2 June 1951) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party, and the current

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. She

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her secondary education at Sofienberg Upper Secondary School in 1975, graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1975 and the cand.sociol. degree in 1979. While studying she was a journalist in ''

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'' from 1976 to 1978. She worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Local Government and Labour from 1979 to 1985, for the

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from 1985 to 1995, for the County Governor of Oslo and Akershus from 1995 to 1997 and then in

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in Norway. Here she has been responsible for the "Norway program". She has represented Save the Children in the Forum for Children and Families in the

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. As a politician, Borgen was a member of her

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council from 1973 to 1976, and of

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from 1979 to 1983 and from 1995 to present. She served as a deputy representative to the

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from Oslo during the terms 1989–1993, 1993–1997, 1997–2001 and 2001–2005. In total, she met during eighteen days of parliamentary session. In 2007, she was the Socialist Left Party's candidate to become

, without succeeding. She was elected mayor in 2015. Borgen was a board member of Lovisenberg Hospital from 1992 to 1994 and a deputy board member of

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from 1996 to 2001. She has also co-administered research projects for the

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. From 1994 to 1996 and since 2006 she is a board member of Aker Hospital.

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