Eva Birkeland (born 10 September 1938) is a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in

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and took the

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She worked in the secretariat in

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from 1965. She was an assistant secretary in

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from 1971 to 1972 and 1975 to 1978, then researcher in the

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from 1979 to 1983. From 1983 to 1990 she was a deputy under-secretary of state in the

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. She was the director of the National Insurance Administration from 1991 to 1997, then an adviser in Statistics Norway.

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1938 births Living people Civil servants from Oslo Directors of government agencies of Norway {{Norway-gov-bio-stub