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About Svein Longva
- Svein Longva (20 December 1943 – 16 April 2009) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant. He was born in Oslo, but his family moved to Volda in 1950.
- After completing his secondary education there in 1962, he enrolled in political economy studies at the University of Oslo.
- Here, he was briefly involved in the Norwegian Labour Party student group, which was dominated by later politicians like Gudmund Hernes and Einar Førde.
- After graduating with the cand.oecon.
- degree, he was hired in Statistics Norway in 1968, was promoted to research director in 1984 and was managing director from 1991 to 2004.
- He was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University for a brief period in the 1970s.
- He served as State Conciliator of Norway from 2005 to 2009.
- In February 2009 he was relieved due to illness and replaced by Geir Engebretsen.
- Not long after, in April 2009, Longva died.
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