Kjetil Skogrand (born 5 January 1967) is a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party. He took the Master of Arts degree in International Relations at the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

in 1992, and the cand.philol. degree at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

in 1994. He was a

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at the

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from 1994 to 1995 and a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies from 1997 to 2005. When the

second cabinet Stoltenberg Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition government, coalition between the Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party (Norway), Socialist Left Party a ...

assumed office following the 2005 election, he was appointed State Secretary in the

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. He resigned in November 2006.

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Biography
at Government.no 1967 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries Politicians from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Alumni of the University of Sussex 20th-century Norwegian historians {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub