Oddny Ballo Aleksandersen (born 5 February 1942), is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Born in

Vadsø Vadsø or Vadso may refer to: Places * Vadsø Municipality, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway *Vadsø (town) (Norwegian language, Norwegian; ), (Northern Sami language, Northern Sami; , or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, tow ...

, she chaired the local party chapter in Vadsø from 1979 to 1982 and was a member of the executive committee of the

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

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from 1979 to 1983. Elected to the

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in 1983, she served as deputy county mayor for one term, and acting county mayor from May 1986 to April 1987, during the illness of county mayor Helmer Mikkelsen. On the national level, she served briefly as personal secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1981. She was later Minister of Government Administration and Labour from September 1992 to October 1993, in the

third cabinet Brundtland Brundtland's Third Cabinet was a minority, Labour Government of Norway. It succeeded the H- Sp- KrF Cabinet Syse, and sat between 3 November 1990 and 25 October 1996. She was the third woman in a row to hold this position; the first man to be Minister of Government Administration was

Nils Olav Totland Nils Olav Totland (born 17 December 1935) is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party. He was Minister of Government Administration and Reform (Norway), Minister of Administration from October 1993 to October 1996, in ...

, who succeeded Aleksandersen in 1993.Ministry of Government Administration and Reform. Councillor of State 1990-present
- government.no Outside politics she took her education here and there, at

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and

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway a ...

, finally taking the cand.mag. degree in 1996. She has worked as a school teacher in

Sør-Varanger Municipality Sør-Varanger (; ; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Other settlements in the municipality include the vill ...

and

from 1968 to 1972 and 1982 to 1984, as a secretary in the

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from 1972 to 1979, as a consultant in

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from 1980 to 1982 and in the administrative department of the University of Tromsø from 1990 to 2007. She has been a member of the board of the

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from 1983 to 1987, the

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from 1986 to 1990, Det Norske Luftfartselskap from 1987 to 1988, the

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from 1989 to 1992, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and the

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from 1996 to 2000.

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