Siv Nordrum (7 October 1958 – 24 April 2021) was a Norwegian journalist, communication director and politician. Born in

Drøbak Drøbak is a List of cities in Norway, town and the centre of the municipality of Frogn, in Viken county, Norway. The city is located along the Oslofjord, and has 13,409 inhabitants. History Drøbak and Frogn was established as a parish on its o ...

, Nordrum worked as journalist from 1977, and was assigned with

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in the 1980s and 1990s. At NRK she started working for the radio's main news programme ''

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'' in 1984, and was a foreign correspondent for NRK in Asia from 1989. From 2001 to 2005 she served as State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister, working with Kjell Magne Bondevik. From 2006 to 2012 she was appointed communication director at the

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, and from 2012 to 2015 she assumed a similar position for

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, and from 2015 she was head of communications at the

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. Nordrum was married to

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, Norwegian ambassador to Sweden and the couple resided in

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since 2017. She died on 24 April 2021 after a short illness.

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1958 births 2021 deaths People from Frogn Norwegian journalists NRK people Norwegian state secretaries Christian Democratic Party (Norway) politicians {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub