Oddbjørn Karmhus Nordset (born 25 March 1946) is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Centre Party. He took an agricultural education, graduating from the

Norwegian College of Agriculture The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (, NMBU) is a public university located in Ås, Norway. It is located in Akershus county and has around 7,700 students. History The institution was established in 1859 as the Higher Agricultural Coll ...

with the cand.agric. degree in 1973. Before enrolling at the Norwegian College of Agriculture, he was a secretary for the Centre Party in

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

. After three years as a consultant in the

Ministry of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

from 1973 to 1976, Nordset was appointed as a county agronomist in Nord‑Trøndelag. Then, after a period from 1983 to 1986 as State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, he was promoted to chief county agronomist. He remained in this post until 1991, when he served for two years as acting County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag. He was then the Assisting County Governor from 1994 to 2002 and 2003 to 2008. In 2008 he started his second period as acting County Governor, as Inger Lise Gjørv retired. He was succeeded by Inge Ryan in 2009. Nordset is also the

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of the National Veterinary Institute.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nordset, Oddbjoern 1946 births Living people County governors of Norway Norwegian state secretaries Centre Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Nord-Trøndelag Norwegian College of Agriculture alumni People from Verdal