Lorents Lorentsen (born 5 March 1947) is a Norwegian civil servant. A '' candidatus oeconomices'' by education, he was hired in

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in 1979, and was promoted to head of research in 1987. He left in 1992 to become deputy under-secretary of State in the Ministry of Finance and Customs. He served as acting permanent under-secretary of State of the Ministry of Finance from 2002 to 2003, before being appointed as head of the Environment Directorate in the

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in 2003.

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