Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (born 25 August 1965) is a Norwegian civil servant and former politician for the Labour Party. She was appointed as

Director-General A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'' ) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a governmen ...

of the

Directorate of Integration and Diversity The Directorate of Integration and Diversity ( no, Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet) is a Norwegian government agency which is responsible for implementing public policy concerning refugees and integration. It is subordinate to the Ministry o ...

by the King-in-Council on 17 June 2016, succeeding

Geir Barvik Geir Barvik (born 19 May 1958, in Bø, Telemark) is a Norwegian civil servant. He served as Managing Director of the Norwegian State Housing Bank from 2001 to 2010 and as Director-General of the Directorate of Integration and Diversity from 2010 t ...

.Libe Rieber-Mohn blir ny direktør for IMDi
Government of Norway She formerly served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion and as Deputy Mayor of Oslo.

Career

She graduated as cand.sociol. from the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top univers ...

in 1994, and worked as a research assistant at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research from 1994 to 1995. In 2005, when

Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th secretary general of NATO since 2014. A member of the Norwegian Labour Party, he previously served as the 34th prime minister of Norway from 2000 t ...

's second cabinet took office, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. She held this position until 2009. On the local level she was a member of

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) 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 ...

city council from 1987 to 1991, and chaired the local chapter of the Workers' Youth League. She has also been involved in local politics in

Gamle Oslo Gamle Oslo is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. The name means "Old Oslo", and the district contains Old Town. The borough has several landmarks and large parks, including the Edvard Munch Museum, the Botanical Gardens and a medieval park. ...

. Rieber-Mohn was the Labor party's candidate for governing mayor of Oslo in the 2011 local elections in Norway. She served as Deputy Mayor of Oslo from 2011 to 2015. She was appointed as

of the

by the King-in-Council on 17 June 2016, succeeding

, and takes office in August 2016.

Private life

She is married to

Rune Bjerke Rune Bjerke (born 17 June 1960) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party. Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of Siri Bjerke. Bjerke studied economics at the University of Oslo, and has a master's degree in public a ...

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Libe S. Rieber-Mohn
- regjeringen.no 1960 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Oslo Norwegian state secretaries University of Oslo alumni Norwegian women state secretaries {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub