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Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
About Per Rune Henriksen
- Per Rune Henriksen (born 14 March 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Bergen as a son of mason Theodor Johan Henriksen and office secretary Karen Warhuus.
- He started school at Landås in 1967, and finished school in 1978.
- He was a carpenter apprentice from 1978 to 1979, and worked within construction from 1978 to 1991, except for a period from 1988 to 1990 when he joined a peace corps for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation in Kenya.
- He was then a full-time trade unionist from 1992 to 2005.
- He was a secretary for the regional chapter of the Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) from 1997 to 2005.
- He had been a board member of his trade union chapter Tømrernes Fagforening in the United Federation of Trade Unions from 1984 to 1988, and secretary from 1991 to 1996.He was a deputy member of Bergen city council from 1995 to 1999.
- He chaired the county party chapter since 2003 to 2009, having been deputy chair from 2002 to 2003.
- From 2002 to 2009 he is also a member of the Labour Party national board.
- He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland in 2005, and was re-elected in 2009.
- In September 2010 he was appointed as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.
- He left behind his seat in Parliament, which was taken by Jette F.
- Christensen.
- In May 2013 he resigned as State Secretary to concentrate on being re-elected in 2013, in which he succeeded.He was the chair of Bergen og Omegn Boligbyggelag from 2000 to 2006 and a board member of the Norwegian Federation of Co-operative Housing Assiciations from 2003 to 2005.
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