Øystein Kåre Djupedal (born 5 May 1960) is a Norwegian politician.
Djupedal was born in
Oslo
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,
Norway
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, and is the son of the linguist
Reidar Djupedal. He is a Norwegian politician for the
Socialist Left Party (SV), and was a member of
Storting
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for
Sør-Trøndelag
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County, where he has sat from the
1993 election until 2009. For two years, from 2005 to 2007, he was the
Minister of Education and Research. He is also former deputy leader of the Socialist Left Party. From 2008 until 2015 he was the
County Governor of Aust-Agder, although
Svein Ã…ril was the acting governor for him from 2008 until 2009 when he finished his Parliamentary term.
References
Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians
Living people
1960 births
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of education of Norway
Research ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting 2001–2005
Members of the Storting 1993–1997
Members of the Storting 1997–2001
Members of the Storting 2005–2009
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