Willy Ovesen (1 June 1924 – 3 January 2015) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in

Sørreisa Municipality Sørreisa ( sme, Ráisavuona suohkan) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sørreisa. Other villages include Grunnreisa, Skøelva, and Smørsgård. The munici ...

, graduated with the

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

degree and worked in the Norwegian Tax Administration from 1956. He was promoted to county tax director in

Akershus Akershus () is a traditional region and current electoral district in Norway, with Oslo as its main city and traditional capital. It is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. From the middle ages to 1919, Akershus was a fief and main county ...

county in 1973, and served as director of the Norwegian Tax Administration (Tax Director) from 1982 to 1994. He died in 2015.Death announcement, ''Aftenposten'' 9 January 2015, p. 28

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