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Jon Ola Norbom

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Jon Ola Norbom
Norbom in 1950
Minister of Finance
In office
18 October 1972 – 16 October 1973
Prime MinisterLars Korvald
Preceded byRagnar Christiansen
Succeeded byPer Kleppe
State Secretary for the Ministry of Finance
In office
13 February 1967 – 16 October 1969
Prime MinisterPer Borten
MinisterOle Myrvoll
Leader of the Young Liberals
In office
1950–1952
Preceded byOlaf Kortner
Succeeded bySimen Skjønsberg
Personal details
Born
Jon Ola Haguer Norbom

(1923-12-15)15 December 1923
Bærum, Akershus, Norway
Died12 April 2020(2020-04-12) (aged 96)
Suwanee, Georgia, U.S.
Political partyLiberal
SpouseEllen Ann Hook (m. 1954)

Jon Ola Hauger Norbom (15 December 1923 – 12 April 2020) was a Norwegian economist and politician.

Biography

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During World War II, in 1942, Norbom was imprisoned for a brief time at Grini concentration camp. Then, in November 1943, he was among the students who were arrested by the German occupying forces in Norway as part of a general imprisonment of all male, non-NS students at the University of Oslo. He was imprisoned in the German concentration camp Buchenwald.[1]

From 1950 to 1952, he was the leader of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. He was State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1967 to 1969, during Borten's cabinet, and became Minister of Finance from 1972 to 1973 during the Korvald's cabinet. Norbom never held elected political office.[2]

He graduated as cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1949, and studied international economics and European integration at the College of Europe in Bruges from 1952 to 1953. He subsequently worked as a researcher with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United Nations and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) during the 1950s and 1960s. He was director in the International Trade Centre Unctad/Gatt from 1973 to 1984, the Permanent Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs from 1984 to 1993, and member of the United Nations Social Policy Committee from 1987 to 1990.[2]

Norbom died in Suwanee, Georgia on 12 April 2020, aged 96.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940-1945" (Oslo, 2004)
  2. ^ a b "Jon Ola Norbom" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  3. ^ Tvedt, Knut Are (2023-08-23), "Jon Ola Norbom", Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian), retrieved 2024-01-18
Party political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Young Liberals of Norway
1950–1952
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Finance (Norway)
1972–1973
Succeeded by