Bjørn Stordrange (born 13 January 1956 in

Flekkefjord Flekkefjord () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Lister Region, Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the ...

) is a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party. His father

Kolbjørn Stordrange Kolbjørn Stordrange (27 September 1924 in Nes, Vest-Agder – 18 November 2004) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Vest-Agder in 1969, and was re-elected on one occasion. He ha ...

was a member of parliament before him, representing the same party. Bjørn Stordrange served as a deputy representative to the

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from

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during the terms 1981–1985, 1985–1989 and 1989–1993. From 1981 to 1983 he served as a regular representative, covering for Tore Austad who was a member of the first cabinet Willoch. Outside politics Stordrange graduated as

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in 1982. He served his military service at the elite Russian language program of the

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. At the

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he was hired as researcher in 1983 and

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(''førsteamanuensis'') in 1986. He took the

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in 1988, and was appointed district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') in

from 1988 to 1992. He was assistant professor (''professor II'') at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway a ...

from 1989 to 1992, and at the

Norwegian School of Management BI Norwegian Business School () is a Norwegian specialized university that provides education and conducts research primarily in the fields of business and economics, marketing, strategy, management, and administration. BI is organized as a self ...

from 1997. He has also been a practising lawyer. From 1989 to 1990, during the Conservative

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, Stordrange was appointed state secretary in the

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. He is chairman of the board of

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since 1998.

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1956 births Living people Members of the Storting Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Vest-Agder politicians Norwegian state secretaries Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Academic staff of the University of Oslo Academic staff of BI Norwegian Business School 20th-century Norwegian judges People from Flekkefjord {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub