Stein Lier-Hansen (born 9 May 1955) is a Norwegian organizational director and politician for the Labour Party.

Personal life

Lier-Hansen was born in

Rjukan Rjukan () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The town is also the administrative centre of Tinn Municipality. The town is located in the Vestfjorddalen valley, between the lakes Møsvatn ...

on 9 May 1955. He is a son of Knut Lier-Hansen.

Career

From 1988 to 1993 he was the general secretary of the

Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers The Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers (, NJFF) is a Norwegian organization for hunters and sport fishers. It was established in 1871, and in 2019 had around 110,000 members. The organizations primary concern is to secure the opportunie ...

, an organization with more than 100,000 members. He then became assisting director of the

Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management (, DN) was Norway's national governmental body for preserving Norway's natural environment, including establishing and regulating national parks and other protected areas until 2013 when it was merged ...

in 1993, and director in 1995. During

Stoltenberg's First Cabinet Stoltenberg's First Cabinet governed Norway between 17 March 2000 and 19 October 2001. The Labour Party cabinet was led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (; born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Part ...

, Lier-Hansen was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment. He held the position until after the

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, which caused the cabinet to fall. In 2004 he became CEO of the Federation of Norwegian Process Industries, named

Federation of Norwegian Industries The Federation of Norwegian Industries () is an employers' organisation in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic ...

since a 2006 merger, an organization under the

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (, NHO) is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 30,000 members. It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegian Employers' Confederation and the ...

umbrella. He succeeded Per Terje Vold.

Selected books

* ''Storviltjakt'' (1983) * ''Jegerprøveboka'' (1986, jointly with Bjørn Wegge)

References

1955 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries Directors of government agencies of Norway {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub