Lars Uno Thulin (25 March 1939 – 14 March 2002) was a Norwegian engineer, civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Uddevalla,

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, but grew up in

Fredrikstad Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad. The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 15 ...

. He studied at the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

where he took a siv.ing. degree. He later took a doctorate in

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. From 1975 to 1976 he was a part of

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as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Church and Education. From 1976 to 1977 in

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he was a State Secretary in the

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. From 1977 to 1989 he worked in the bank

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, from 1981 to 1989 as vice chief executive. He served as the permanent under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, the highest-ranking bureaucratic position, from 1989 to 1992. He abruptly left to become the chief executive officer of

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, where he stayed until 2001.

References

1939 births 2002 deaths Politicians from Fredrikstad People from Uddevalla Municipality Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni 20th-century Norwegian engineers Norwegian state secretaries Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian bankers Statkraft people Norwegian civil servants {{Norway-business-bio-stub