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Place of Birth: Gaular, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
About Astrid Søgnen
- Astrid Olaug Søgnen (born 8 November 1951, in Gaular) is a Norwegian bureaucrat and politician for the Labour Party. In 1995, during the third cabinet Brundtland, she was appointed state secretary in the Ministry of Education, Research and Church Affairs.
- She held this position throughout the cabinet Jagland, but lost her job when it fell in 1997. A cand.philol.
- by education, Søgnen originally worked as a school teacher.
- From 1987 to 2000 she was assisting director of education in Akershus county municipality.
- In 2000 she took over as director of the Education Agency (Utdanningsetaten) in Oslo.
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