He finished his secondary education in 1941, took commerce school in 1944 and then enrolled in law studies.
degree at the University of Oslo in 1949, and worked as a deputy judge in Oslo, Eidsvoll and Søre Sunnmøre before being hired as a secretary in the Ministry of Finance in 1951.
[1] He was promoted to assistant secretary in 1957, sub-director in 1963 and deputy under-secretary of state in 1967.
From 1969 to 1989 he served as the permanent under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Ministry of Industry, the highest-ranking bureaucratic position.
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