Torbjørn Giæver Eriksen (born 1970) is a former Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, currently appointed b
Norsk olje og gass
as head of public affairs since 2015. He graduated with the

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degree in

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from the

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in 1995, and started his political career as a secretary for the Labour Party in Oslo. He remained here from 1996 to 1998, and was then a secretary for the parliamentary group from 1998 to 1999. He was a central board member of JEF Norway from 1993 to 1994. When

Stoltenberg's First Cabinet Stoltenberg's First Cabinet governed Norway between 17 March 2000 and 19 October 2001. The Labour Party cabinet was led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as ...

assumed office in 2000, he was appointed political advisor in the

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. He lost this job when the cabinet fell following the 2001 election. From 2002 to 2005 he worked as an information advisor for

Jens Stoltenberg Jens Stoltenberg (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th secretary general of NATO since 2014. A member of the Norwegian Labour Party, he previously served as the 34th prime minister of Norway from 2000 to ...

. When the

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assumed office following the 2005 election, Eriksen was appointed State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister. He resigned in June 2011. He undertook studies at

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. In 2012 he was appointed by the communications company First House. In 2015 he was appointed b
Norsk olje og gass
as head of public affairs.

References

1970 births Living people University of Oslo alumni Politicians from Oslo Labour Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian state secretaries Norwegian expatriates in the United States {{Norway-politician-1970s-stub