Olav Søfteland (born 8 November 1937) is a Norwegian civil servant.
Hailing from
Søfteland
Søfteland or Syfteland is a village in Bjørnafjorden municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It lies on the Bergen Peninsula, along the European route E39 highway, about north of the municipal centre of Osøyro and about south of the city o ...
in
Os, he is a
siv.ing. from 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 ...
by education. In 1960 he was hired in the
Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads, and was eventually promoted to director in 1992. Scheduled to retire as a
pensioner in late 2007, he was forced to resign some months early due to the December 2006
Hanekleiv Tunnel scandal.
References
1937 births
Living people
Norwegian engineers
Norwegian civil servants
Directors of government agencies of Norway
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Directorate of Public Roads people
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