Kari Gjesteby was born on 16 May 1947 and is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
10 Facts About Kari Gjesteby
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Kari Gjesteby has never been a member of the Norwegian Parliament, but has been State Secretary for three tenures, as well as Minister of Trade and Shipping from February to October 1981 and Minister of Justice and the Police from 1990 to 1992.
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Kari Gjesteby worked in Landsbanken from 1966 to 1967 and Universitetsforlaget from 1967 to 1972.
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Kari Gjesteby had become involved in the Workers' Youth League in her teens, chaired the secondary school branch from 1964 and was a secretary from 1966.
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Kari Gjesteby was a board member of the local Labour Party chapter from 1964 to 1966 and 1974 to 1975.
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Kari Gjesteby left in 1974 to become political secretary in the Ministry of Government Administration and Consumer Affairs.
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Kari Gjesteby left in January 1978, but returned in October 1979 as State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.
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Kari Gjesteby was given absence of leave to be director of the National Library of Norway from 2002 to 2004 and the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille from 2005 to 2006.
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Kari Gjesteby was a board member of the Bank of Norway and the Nordic Investment Bank, the last four years as deputy chair.
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Kari Gjesteby was a board member of Oslo arbeidersamfunn, Horten Verft, Elcon Leasing, Statens driftssentral for administrative databehandling, Oslo Lysverker, Norsk Hydro SAS Norway, Mint of Norway, HAV Eiendom, Statskonsult, Norwegian Academy of Music, Veidekke, White Buses Foundation.