Ingar Pettersen (born 1946) is a Norwegian consultant and former civil servant, with prominent positions in the health sector.

Biography

He was the chief financial officer in Oslo municipality in the late 1980s. He resigned in March 1990. From 1996 to 1997 he was an acting chief executive at Ullevål Hospital. He also chaired

Aker Hospital Oslo University Hospital, Aker (also known as Aker Hospital or just Aker) is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital. It was an independent hospital from 1895 to 2009, under the name Aker Hospital and from 2002 Aker University Ho ...

from 1994 to August 2000. In October 2000 he was named as chairman of Ullevål Hospital. He was also leased by '' Dagsavisen'' in 2001 to save the newspaper's economy. He has performed the same task in several other newspaper such as ''

Østlendingen ''Østlendingen'' is a daily, regional newspaper published in Elverum, Norway. With a circulation of 19,000, it covers the regions of Østerdalen, Solør, Glåmdalen, Trysil and Engerdal. The newspaper is controlled by Edda Media Edda Media was a ...

'', ''

Hamar Arbeiderblad ''Hamar Arbeiderblad'' (often referred to locally as "HA") is local newspaper published in Hamar, Norway by Hamar Media. The paper is edited by Carsten Bleness. HA was one of the first newspapers to place the internet edition of a newspaper behind ...

'', '' Ringsaker Blad'' and ''

Moss Dagblad ''Moss Dagblad'' is a local newspaper in Moss, Norway that was reestablished in 2014 as a zoned publication of the daily Dagsavisen. At one time it was second largest in the city behind ''Moss Avis'', it was published three days a week where the ...

'', the book club De norske Bokklubbene, the publishing houses

Aschehoug H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), commonly known as Aschehoug,() is one of the largest independent publishing companies in Norway, founded in 1872. Headquartered in Oslo, the publishing house has 480 employees. The Aschehoug group also comprises ot ...

and

Universitetsforlaget Universitetsforlaget AS (English: "The University Press"), also known in English as Scandinavian University Press, is a Norwegian academic publishing company, which publishes non-fiction literature and journals mainly oriented to Scandinavia. U ...

. He was hired by Bærum municipality in 2004 to help them cut up to 80 million off the health budget, then in Drammen municipality in mid-2005 to clean up their care services. From 2005 to 2008 he chaired several

health trust Health trust or HF ( no, helseforetak) is a health Company, enterprise owned by one of the four regional health authority (Norway), regional health authorities in Norway, with responsibility for performing a geographic and/or specialist activities ...

s in South and Eastern Norway; Rikshospitalet-

Radiumhospitalet Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet ( no, Oslo universitetssykehus, Radiumhospitalet) is one of the four campuses of Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, and is dedicated to cancer treatment. This part of the hospital is the most specia ...

and Sørlandet Hospital. A dispute in 2008 on whether to construct a new patient hotel at Radiumhospitalet led to Pettersen's resignation. Briefly in 2005 he was also a board member of Achima Helse, a company that leased workers to the same hospitals. From 2008 to 2009 he was instead brought in as acting director of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. From March 2009 to August 2010 he went on to serve as acting director of

Stavanger University Hospital Stavanger University Hospital (Norwegian: ''Stavanger Universitetssjukehus'', SUS) is located in the neighborhood of Våland in Stavanger, Norway. Stavanger University Hospital is one of Norway's largest hospitals with more than 7500 employees. T ...

. He returned to the administrative officer staff of Drammen municipality. In late 2011 he was hired by 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 ...

References

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