Hugo Parr, Date of Birth

    

Hugo Parr

Norwegian physicist and politician

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1947

Profession: politician, physicist, chess player

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Hugo Parr

  • Hugo Ragnar Parr (born 23 April 1947) is a Norwegian physicist, civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Asker.
  • He took the B.Sc.
  • degree in physics in 1968 and the M.Sc.
  • degree in 1969, at the University of Washington.
  • He was a research assistant and research fellow from 1970 to 1976, including a spell at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment in 1972.
  • He took the dr.philos.
  • degree at the University of Oslo in 1976.
  • From 1977 to 1978 he worked as a researcher under the NTNF programme.In 1978 he was appointed as assistant secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, and went on to Det Norske Veritas in 1984.
  • From 1986 to 1987 he was a head of department in the National Institute of Technology, then deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
  • In 1992 he applied unsuccessfully for the position as director of the Research Council of Norway.
  • He instead continued in the Ministry of Trade, until moving to the Ministry of Modernization in 2004.
  • From 2005 it was named the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform.Parr was a member of the International Energy Agency research committee from 1978 til 1984, of the EUREKA high-level group from 1988 to 1989 and 1993 to 1995 (chairman 1993 to 1994) and the EFTA research committee from 1988 to 1991 (chairman from 1990).
  • He also chaired the council of the European Space Agency from 1996 to 1999.
  • From 2001 to 2004 he chaired the Norwegian Chess Federation.
  • He resides in Nittedal, and was a member of the municipal council from 1995 to 1999.
  • He has also been a board member of Nittedal Energiverk and Development Fund, and a council member of the environmental organization Future in Our Hands.
  • He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

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