Jarle Aarbakke (born 18 November 1942) was the rector at the University of Tromsø from 2002 until 2013, and the mayor of Tromsø municipality from October 2015 to July 2016[1] Before being elected rector in 2001, Aarbakke served as a professor of pharmacy at the Department of Medical Microbiology.

From 2007 to 2009 he was chair of the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR).

In 1997 Aarbakke led a government committee for investigation of alternative and supplementary medicine.

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