Arne Øien (22 December 1928 – 5 October 1998) was a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party.
He worked in Statistics Norway from 1955 to 1970, and was hired as a deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Finance in 1971.
[2] Having a parallel career in politics, he was a State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister in 1981 under the first cabinet Brundtland.
When the second cabinet Brundtland was formed in 1986, Øien was brought in as Minister of Petroleum and Energy.
He lost the job when the second cabinet Brundtland fell following the 1989 election.