Endre Skjørestad (born 2 May 1953) is a
Norwegian lawyer
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and
politician for the
Centre Party. He is
Chair
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of the railway company
Flytoget since 2003.
He is also Chair of Nofima, deputy chair of the
Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway, board member of
Gassnova and
partner in the law firm Haver. Skjørestad served as a deputy representative to the
Norwegian Parliament during the terms 1993–1997, 1997–2001 and 2001–2005.
Skjørestad was educated as a lawyer with the
cand.jur.
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degree in 1978. He worked as an assistant from 1979 to 1981, before working as an assistant judge in
Ryfylke from 1982 to 1983. He started in the law firm Wyller, Pedersen og Haver in 1983, becoming a partner in 1985. He sat in
Sandnes municipal council in 1984 to 1995, serving the last two years as deputy mayor. From 1997 to 2000, during the
first cabinet Bondevik, he was appointed
state secretary in the
Ministry of Finance.
References
1953 births
Living people
20th-century Norwegian lawyers
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Deputy members of the Storting
Norwegian state secretaries
Rogaland politicians
People from Sandnes
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