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Erling Valvik
Erling Valvik (born 1953) is a Norwegian civil servant. He hails from Bergen, and after studies in economics, law and public administration at the University of Bergen he graduated with the cand. polit. degree. After some years as a Norad official in Namibia and civil servant in Tromsø he was hired as a financial consultant in Kristiansand municipality in 1982. In 1990 he advanced to chief administrative officer, a position he held until 2002. In 2000, Kristiansand municipality sold stocks in the power company Agder Energi, and of the sales fee were funneled to a new cultural foundation, Cultiva. As chief administrative officer Valvik was one of the architects behind the foundation, together with prominent local politicians such as Bjarne Ugland and Tore Austad. In 2002, Valvik applied for the job as managing director of Cultiva, and was hired after edging out 54 other applicants. In early February 2004, Valvik was selected as chairman of the Southern Norway Regional Health A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Norway Regional Health Authority
{{Infobox company , name = Helse Sør RHF , logo = , fate = Merger , successor = Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority , foundation = January 1, 2002 , defunct = June 1, 2007 , location = Skien, Norway , industry = Healthcare , key_people = , products = , num_employees = , parent = Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services , subsid = Southern Norway Regional Health Authority ( no, Helse Sør RHF) was a regional health authority that covered the counties of Aust-Agder, Buskerud, Telemark, Vest-Agder and Vestfold in Norway, as well as the national hospitals in Oslo. The authority was founded on January 1, 2002, but merged with the Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority to form the new Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority on June 1, 2007. The eight health trusts owned by the authority were Blefjell Health Trust, Rikshospitalet–Radiumhospitalet, Vestfold Psychiatric Health Trust, Ringerike Heath Trust, Buskerud Health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Servants From Bergen
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Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Cathrine Frøstrup
Anne Cathrine Frøstrup (born 21 September 1954) is a Norway, Norwegian civil servant. She hails from Skien, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1981. She worked in the Ministry of Justice and the Police (Norway), Ministry of Justice from 1981 to 1993, except for the years 1983 to 1985 when she was a deputy judge in Modum and Sigdal District Court. From 1993 to 1995 she served as acting presiding judge in Agder Court of Appeal; and from 1995 to 2003 she was the stipendiary magistrate in Oslo. In 2003 she was hired as director of registry in the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority, and in 2008 she was promoted to director. In 2006 Frøstrup was selected as chairman of the Southern Norway Regional Health Authority. She remained so until the merger with the Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority in 2007, upon which she was not re-selected as a board member. In 2010 she became chair of the power company Ringeriks-Kraft. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oluf Arntsen
Oluf Arntsen (born 22 March 1941) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He was born in Kristiansand and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.real. degree in 1967. He worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Education and Church Affairs and at a teachers' college before being assisting chief executive at NKI-skolen. During Korvald's Cabinet from 1972 to 1973, he was a State Secretary, first in the Ministry of Local Government and Labour, then in the Office of the Prime Minister. After that he held another political position, secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Party, before he was director of enterprise in Vestfold County Municipality. He was then a director in Anders Jahre/Kosmos from 1982 to 1988, before being hired as chief executive officer of Sparebanken Pluss. He retired in 2001 and was replaced by Stein A. Hannevik. He has been chairman of the Norwegian Banks' Guarantee Fund, the Norwegian Industrial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steinar Stokke
Steinar Stokke (born 8 October 1955) is a Norwegian businessperson and former civil servant, with prominent positions in the health sector. By education, he is a political scientist from the University of Oslo. In the 1980s and 1990s he pursued a career in the civil service. In 1988 he was acting subdirector, and was promoted to subdirector, in the Ministry of Finance. He later became acting head of department before being promoted to director in 1992. Another promotion to deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Social Affairs followed in 1993, before he reached the highest-ranking position in the civil service, permanent under-secretary of state, in 1996. In 1999 he left the civil service to become chief executive of the pharmaceutical wholesaler Apokjeden. He cited a wage of in the civil service as one of the reasons, deeming is to be too low, and adding that "The public sector is struggling with a leader wage problem. Something must happen here if one wants to keep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagfinn Høybråten
Dagfinn Høybråten (born 2 December 1957) is a Norwegian politician. He was the leader of the Christian Democratic Party 2004–2011. He was also Parliamentary leader from 2005 when he was elected as Member of Parliament representing Rogaland. He was Vice President of the Norwegian Parliament from 2011 to 2013. He was President of the Nordic Council in 2007. Høybråten was granted leave from his duty as Member of Parliament from March 2013 to take up the position as Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers. He was elected board member of the GAVI Alliance in 2006 and chair of the board from 2011 to 2015. In 2018 it was announced that Mr Høybråten will lead the "Truth and Reconciliation committee" regarding the discrimination of the indigenous Sami people in Norway up and until 1980. He was the chairman of the Young Christian Democrats (KrFU) in 1979–1982. Høybråten has been part of the political leadership of every Government the Christian Democratic Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tore Austad
Tore Austad (born 8 April 1935) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Born in Skedsmo, Akershus, he received a cand. philol. degree in 1962, and worked as a professor of Norwegian at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1966. Returning to Norway he worked at various academic institutions, before being elected to the Storting from the county of Vest-Agder in 1977, where he sat for three periods, until 1989. On 14 October 1981, he was appointed Minister of Education and Church Affairs in the new government of Kåre Willoch. On 8 June 1983, the Conservative Party joined in a coalition with the Christian Democratic Party and the Centre Party, in order to form a majority government. Austad had to resign, and his position was taken over by Kjell Magne Bondevik Kjell Magne Bondevik (; born 3 September 1947) is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served as the 33rd prime minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are on Byfjorden, 'the city fjord', and the city is surrounded by mountains; Bergen is known as the "city of seven mountains". Many of the extra-municipal suburbs are on islands. Bergen is the administrative centre of Vestland county. The city consists of eight boroughs: Arna, Bergenhus, Fana, Fyllingsdalen, Laksevåg, Ytrebygda, Årstad, and Åsane. Trading in Bergen may have started as early as the 1020s. According to tradition, the city was founded in 1070 by King Olav Kyrre and was named Bjørgvin, 'the green meadow among the mountains'. It served as Norway's capital in the 13th century, and from the end of the 13th century became a bureau city of the Hansea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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