Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim (28 July 1937 – 18 September 2010) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

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. After moving to

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in 1952 he

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his secondary education at

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in 1956, he studied Russian language in the Norwegian military, and in 1960 at the

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. He then graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1965. He was a

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in 1964, secretary for the Ottosen Committee in 1966 and adviser for the Labour Party parliamentary group from 1966 to 1969. He then entered civil service as a head of department in the Ministry of Education and Church Affairs from 1969 to 1976, deputy under-secretary of state in the

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from 1976 to 1979 and the Ministry of the Environment from 1979 to 1982. He was then managing director of the

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for one year, special adviser in

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in 1983 and after that practising as a lawyer. From 1980 to 1982 he was a board member of the NTNF and a deputy board member of the

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. He has also been a board member of

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and deputy chair of

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. Sørheim was active in national politics. He served as a deputy representative to the

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from

during the term 1969–1973. In 1981, during

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, he was a secretary of state at the Office of the Prime Minister. From 1977 to 1979 he was married to

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. He resided in Huk. Sørheim died in September 2010, a day after suffering from a

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References

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