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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Nina Frisak
- Nina Frisak (born 28 November 1950) is a Norwegian judge and civil servant.
- She was the Secretary to the Government from 2001 to 2016.She was born in Oslo.
- She graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1977, and was a lawyer's trainee in London from 1977 to 1978 and in Oslo from 1979 to 1981.
- She then worked as an assistant secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1981 to 1988.
- From 1988 to 1991 she was a lawyer in the Nordisk Defence Club.
- She was then a presiding judge in Eidsivating Court of Appeal from 1991 to 1995, went back to the bureaucracy as deputy under-secretary of state in the Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister from 1995 to 2000, and then became a judge again; a Supreme Court Justice from 2000 to 2001.In 2001 she was hired as permanent under-secretary of state in the Office of the Prime Minister, succeeding Bjørn T.
- Grydeland.
- This particular position was not called permanent under-secretary; rather Secretary General at the Office of the Prime Minister, but in November 2001 the name was changed to Secretary to the Government (Norwegian: regjeringsråd).
- The position is the highest-ranking civil servant position in Norway, and entails, besides leading the Office of the Prime Minister, to lead the secretariat of the entire Council of State.
- The first woman to hold this position, Frisak has been ranked among Norway's most powerful women on numerous occasions.
- The position is non-partisan. Frisak is also the chancellor for the committee that awards the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav.
- She was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Order in 2004.
- Frisak is holds the Grand Cross (First Class) of the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana. She is married to organizational leader Øystein Dahle.
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