degree in 1970, spent one year doing compulsory military service, and worked at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research from 1971 to 1974.
He started working in Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality in 1974, and was promoted to financial director in 1978.
He was the chief executive officer of Førde Central Hospital from 1980 to 1981, returned to being financial director before leaving in 1988.
In 1995, he became Assisting County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane, and from 1997, he was the chief administrative officer (fylkesrådmann) of Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality,[2] He retired in 2006.
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