Jan Tore Odegard, Date of Birth

    

Jan Tore Odegard

Norwegian consultant and politician

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1940

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jan Tore Odegard

  • Jan Tore Odegard (born 14 October 1940) is a Norwegian consultant and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Oslo as a son of chief physician Jan Nicolai Thorstein Odegard and Bergljot Lysholm Bugge.
  • He finished his secondary education at Oslo Cathedral School in 1958, and also graduated from Oslo Commerce School in 1963 and the Norwegian School of Economics in 1966.
  • While studying here he presided over the Students' Parliament of Bergen in 1965.
  • In 1965 he married Kristin Houge, her too a daughter of a physician.He was a consultant, and had several shorter director jobs in his early career.
  • In 1967 he was director of finance at Den Nationale Scene, and in 1969 he was hired as head of department in Dyno Industrier.
  • He was soon promoted to secretary for the board.
  • In January 1971 he was appointed to Borten's Cabinet as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence.
  • He remained so until the cabinet fell on 17 March.
  • He also chaired the Conservative Party branch in Vestre Bærum from 1970 to 1971.After losing his government position, he had a brief tenure as director in Nationaltheatret before moving to London in 1971 to work as a consultant for McKinsey & Co..
  • He left in 1973 to become director in the companies O.
  • Ditlef-Simonsen Jr.
  • and Scandinavian Petroleum until 1975.
  • From 1977 he was a head of division in Norcem, and after serving as vice chief executive for one year he established his own consultant firm in 1983.He was a board member of the Norwegian UNICEF committee from 1967 to 1971, and through his consulting business he has also been a board member of Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt, Sparebanken NOR, Det Norske Veritas, Unitor, Universitetsforlaget, Bokredit, Petter Olsen AS, Fred.
  • Olsen, Timex and Norsk Film.

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