Kyrre Lekve (born 11 March 1968) is a Norwegian biologist and politician for the Socialist Left Party. He finished his secondary education in 1988, and minored in political science in 1991. He was also a journalist in ''

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'' and ''

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'' between 1988 and 1992. He later took his education in

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

at the

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, graduating with the

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in 1997 and dr.scient. degree in 2001. From 2001 to 2004 he was a post.doc. researcher at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis. From 1992 to 1994 he chaired Socialist Youth, the youth wing of the Socialist Left Party. From 1995 to 1997 he was a central board member of the party, chairing the committee on foreign policy. He was hired as an adviser in

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in 2004, but became involved in politics again in 2007. He was appointed as a political adviser in the Ministry of Education and Research, as a part of

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. From October 2009 to May 2012 he served as a State Secretary in the same ministry. After resigning he was hired in the

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, but already in November the same year he became assisting director of

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(NIFU).

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1968 births Living people University of Oslo alumni Norwegian biologists Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub