Knut Brofoss (9 October 1948 – 3 April 2025) was a Norwegian civil servant. 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 ...

as a son of economist and politician

Erik Brofoss Erik Brofoss (21 June 1908 – 7 May 1979) was a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party. Brofoss was born in Kongsberg. In his younger days he was an athlete who competed national level in the 100 metres. He represented Kongsbe ...

. Knut Brofoss took the cand.jur. degree, and was hired in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1975. From 1983 he worked in the Ministry of Social Affairs. He was deputy under-secretary of state from 1988 to 1999, and acting permanent under-secretary of state in 1999. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as a prosecutor in the Norwegian National Authority for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime. He then became general director of the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research. In 2005 he was appointed as director of the National Insurance Court. Trine Fernsjø took over in 2016. He was married to Ingse Stabel. Brofoss died on 3 April 2025, at the age of 76.

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