Frode Helgerud (born 17 June 1950) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

and graduated from the

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with the cand.philol. degree in 1976. He worked as secretariat leader for the Conservative Party parliamentary caucus from 1981 to 1983, and was a political adviser to Jan P. Syse in

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from 1983 to 1985. He served as a deputy representative to the

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from

during the terms 1997–2001 and 2013–2017. In his career outside politics, Helgerud worked as director of environmental information in

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from 1985 to 1991, information director in Sparebanken NOR from 1991 to 1999, executive director of communications in successor companies Gjensidige NOR and DnB NOR between 1999 and 2004. From 2004 to 2014 he was the chief executive of Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR.

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1950 births Living people University of Oslo alumni Deputy members of the Storting Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Oslo Norwegian businesspeople {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub