Egil Bakke (27 September 1927 – 16 July 2022) was a Norwegian civil servant.

Life and career

Egil Bakke was born in

Horten is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...

. Having graduated as

cand.oecon. Candidatus oeconomices (male) or Candidata oeconomices (female), often abbreviated cand.oecon. is an academic degree in economics at Education in Denmark, Danish, Háskóli Íslands, Icelandic and Higher education in Norway, Norwegian universities ...

(

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in economics), he worked in the

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from 1954 to 1971, in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Administration from 1972 to 1974 and in the

Federation of Norwegian Industries The Federation of Norwegian Industries ( no, Norsk Industri) is an employers' organisation in Norway, organized under the national Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. It was established on 1 January 2006 as a merger of the Federation of Norwe ...

(a precursor to the

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise ( no, Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon, NHO) is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 30,000 members. It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegi ...

) from 1974 to 1983. From 1983 to 1995 he served as director of the

Norwegian Price Directorate Norwegian Competition Authority ( no, Konkurransetilsynet) is Norwegian Government agency responsible for managing the ''Competition Act'' of 2004, including regulations imposed through the European Economic Community. This includes regulating coo ...

. In 1994 the Norwegian Price Directorate was restructured as the

Norwegian Competition Authority Norwegian Competition Authority ( no, Konkurransetilsynet) is Norway, Norwegian etat, Government agency responsible for managing the ''Competition Act'' of 2004, including regulations imposed through the European Economic Community. This includes ...

. Bakke died on 16 July 2022, at the age of 94.Tidlegare konkurransedirektør Egil Bakke er død

References

1927 births 2022 deaths Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian civil servants People from Horten {{Norway-gov-bio-stub