Per Drageset (15 January 1944 – 12 November 2022) was a Norwegian civil servant. Drageset was born in

Innvik Innvik is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 1965. Innvik is located in the present-day Stryn Municipality in Vestland county, encompassing about the western third of th ...

and grew up in

Raudeberg Raudeberg is a village in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the east side of the island of Vågsøy. The villages of Refvika, Vedvika, and Langeneset are located a few kilometers to the north, and the town of Mål� ...

. He graduated from the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

with the cand.oecon. degree in 1970, spent one year doing

compulsory military service Conscription, also known as the draft in the United States and Israel, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it contin ...

, and worked at the

Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research The Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (, NIBR) is a social science research institute based in Oslo, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsu ...

from 1971 to 1974. He started working in

Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality () was the regional governing administration of the old Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The county municipality was established in its current form on 1 January 1976 when the law was changed to allow elected ...

in 1974, and was promoted to financial director in 1978. He was the chief executive officer of Førde Central Hospital from 1980 to 1981, returned to being financial director before leaving in 1988. From 1989 to 1995, he was the chief executive officer of

Fylkesbaatane Fjord1 Fylkesbaatane (formerly known as Fylkesbaatane i Sogn og Fjordane and Nordre Bergenhus Amts Dampskibe) is a Norwegian transport company. It is a subsidiary of the Fjord1 Nordvestlandske conglomerate and primarily runs ferry, passenger an ...

. In 1995, he became Assisting County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane, and from 1997, he was the chief administrative officer (''fylkesrådmann'') of Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality, He retired in 2006. His wife is from Innvik, and spent most of her career as a pharmacist in

Sogndal Sogndal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansv ...

. When she retired in 2005. Drageset died in Sogndal on 12 November 2022.

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1944 births 2022 deaths Norwegian civil servants University of Oslo alumni People from Vågsøy {{Norway-gov-bio-stub