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Place of Birth: Bærum, Akershus, Norway
About Jon Ola Norbom
- Jon Ola Hauger Norbom (born 15 December 1923 in Bærum), is a Norwegian economist and politician for the Liberal Party. 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.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 the cabinet Borten, and became Minister of the Finance in 1972–1973 during the cabinet Korvald.
- Norbom never held elected political office.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 1952-1953.
- 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 1973-1984, the Permanent Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs 1984-1993, and member of the United Nations Social Policy Committee 1987-1990.
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