Bjørn Haugstad (born 22 January 1969) is Director of Organisation and Infrastructure at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is a former Norwegian civil servant and politician for the
Conservative Party
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.
He studied economics and took the
siv.ing. degree in industrial economics in
Trondheim. He later took his doctorate at
Oxford University.
From 2001 to 2005 he served in
Bondevik's Second Cabinet
Bondevik's Second Cabinet governed Norway between 19 October 2001 and 17 October 2005. It was led by Kjell Magne Bondevik and consisted of the Conservative Party, the Christian Democratic Party and the Liberal Party
The Liberal Party is any of ...
as a
State Secretary in the
Ministry of Education and Research. He was later research director at the
University of Oslo from 2009 to 2013, then briefly a deputy under-secretary of state in the
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. He again became State Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Research in October 2013, in
Solberg's Cabinet.
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References
1969 births
Living people
Norwegian civil servants
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
Alumni of Saïd Business School
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