Paul Thyness (10 April 1930 in

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– 30 March 2016 in

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) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. In 1955 he graduated with the cand.philol. degree and majoring in

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at the

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. He was a member of the board of

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(NUPI) from 1972 to 1977 and from 1988 to 1992. He authored a number of books. In 1963, during the short-lived

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, he was appointed State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister. He was elected to the

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(

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) from

in 1965, and was re-elected on three occasions. He was a co-founder of

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in 1974, and chairman of the caucus from 1977 to 1980. Paul Thyness was Assistant Administrator of the

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(UNDP) and head of the Bureau for Special Activities of the UNDP in New York from 1980 to 1988.

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1930 births 2016 deaths Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Oslo Norwegian state secretaries Norwegian non-fiction writers University of Oslo alumni Members of the Storting 1977–1981 Members of the Storting 1973–1977 Members of the Storting 1969–1973 Members of the Storting 1965–1969 Norwegian Zionists {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub