Arne Simonsen (born 1941) is a Norwegian

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

. He was born in

Haugesund Haugesund () is a municipality on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway. While the population is greater in the neighboring Karmøy municipality, the main commercial and economic centre of the Haugaland region in northern Rogaland and southern ...

, and graduated as

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from the University of Bergen. He worked as a civil servant in

Bergen municipality Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

, the Norwegian Central Information Service, the

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, and the

Norwegian Directorate of Immigration Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

. From September 1992 to June 1993 he was a political advisor for the Minister of Social Affairs in the third cabinet Brundtland. In 1993 he was appointed director of the Norwegian Central Information Service (''Statens Informasjonstjeneste''), succeeding

Odd Strand Odd Strand (21 August 1925 – 18 May 2008) was a Norway, Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Aure, Norway, Aure, but grew up in Trondheim. During the German occupation of Norway he was a member of Milorg. He later studied at the University of ...

who had reached the age limit. The Norwegian Central Information Service no longer exists, as it was merged into

Statskonsult Statskonsult AS is a defunct Norwegian government-owned company that provided management consulting services related to government restructuring and reform. It was created in 1947 as the Rationalisation Office ( no, Rasjonaliseringskontoret), lat ...

in 2001.Statens Informasjonstjeneste
on Caplex Encyclopedia

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1941 births Living people Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian civil servants Labour Party (Norway) politicians People from Haugesund University of Bergen alumni {{Norway-gov-bio-stub