Paul Chaffey

Paul André Chaffey (born 10 July 1965) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician, who represented the Socialist Left Party until 1997.

He is now State Secretary to Minister of Local Government Jan Tore Sanner, and a supporter of the Conservative Party since 2000.

In 2001 he was hired as managing director of Abelia,[1] an employers' organisation organized under the national Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise.

[2] He has also been chair of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs from 2002 to 2005, a board member of Europaprogrammet from 1990 to 1997[1] and of the University of Oslo.

[4] In 2008 he explained his move to the right to have been as he realized "that the market economy works", and even spoke at the national conference of the Progress Party where he praised its members.