
Per Botolf Maurseth (born 17 July 1969) is a Norwegian economist and politician for the
Socialist Left Party. He is the son of historian
Per Maurseth
Per Maurseth (7 June 1932 – 10 May 2013) was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Socialist Left Party.
He was an associate professor at the University of Oslo from 1971, and was appointed professor at the University of Trondheim fro ...
and Aase Maurseth.
From 1989 to 1990 he chaired the regional chapter of
Socialist Youth, the youth wing of the
Socialist Left Party. He was also a member of their national board. From 1992 to 1994 he was a member of their central board. He served in the position of deputy representative to the
Norwegian Parliament from
Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...
during the term 1993–1997.
He graduated 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 universit ...
with the
cand.oecon.
Candidatus oeconomices (male) or Candidata oeconomices (female), often abbreviated cand.oecon. is an academic degree in economics at Education in Denmark, Danish, Háskóli Íslands, Icelandic and Higher education in Norway, Norwegian universities ...
degree in 1995, and took the
dr.polit. degree in 2001 with the paper ''Essays on the nature, the scope and the consequences of knowledge''. From 1995 to 2006 he worked as a researcher at
NUPI. In September 2006, during 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 between the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, known as the Red–Green Coalition. On 9 September ...
, Maurseth was appointed
State Secretary in the
Ministry of Education and Research. In October 2007 he left and returned to NUPI.
Per Botolf Maurseth is currently an associate professor at the economics department of BI,
Norwegian School of Management
BI Norwegian Business School () is the largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe. BI has in total four campuses with the main one located in Oslo. The university has 845 employees consisting of an academic staff of ...
.
References
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Regjeringen.no biographyNUPI biographyBI biography
1969 births
Living people
Deputy members of the Storting
Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
Sør-Trøndelag politicians
Norwegian economists
University of Oslo alumni
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