Åge Danielsen (born 22 June 1942) is a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in

Narvik () is the third-largest List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Narvik (town), town of Narvik. Some of the notable villag ...

, and holds the cand.oecon. degree in

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. He has been chief administrative officer for

Nordland County Municipality Nordland County Municipality () is the regional governing administration of Nordland county in Norway. The main responsibilities of the county municipality includes the running of 16 upper secondary schools, with 9,500 pupils. It administers the ...

from 1980 to 1989, then permanent under-secretary of state in the

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from 1989 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he was the director of

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. He left in 1997 to become director of

Rikshospitalet Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. It was an independent hospital, ''Rigshospitalet'', later spelled ''Rikshospitalet'' ("The National Hospital"), from 1826 to 20 ...

, and

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served as acting director from February until

Jon Blaalid Jon Blaalid (born 1 May 1947) is a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Oslo, and holds the cand.oecon. degree in economics. He worked for Statistics Norway from 1974 to 1979 and the Ministry of Trade from 1979 to 1987. From 1988 to 1990 he ...

was hired as new director in the summer. Danielsen was director of Rikshospitalet from 1997 to 2008, when he was fired. He resides at

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."60 år" (in Norwegian). ''

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'' 22 June 2002, p. 23

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1942 births Living people Directors of government agencies of Norway Oslo University Hospital people People from Narvik {{Norway-gov-bio-stub