1. Per Andreas Hildhe Kleppe was a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party.
19 Facts About Per Kleppe
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In 1979 he was replaced by Ulf Sand, but Kleppe returned in 1980 to head the Secretariat for Long-Term Planning.
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Per Kleppe served as General Secretary of the European Free Trade Association from 1981 to 1988.
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Per Kleppe was born in Kristiania in April 1923, a son of lawyer Knut Sigurd Per Kleppe and Nathalie Mathilde Andersen; the family moved to Bergen when he was six years old.
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Per Kleppe graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.
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Per Kleppe was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1957 to 1962.
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From 1962 Per Kleppe was assigned full time secretary of Den finanspolitiske komite, and from 1963 to 1967 he was subdirector at EFTA in Geneva, and from 1967 to 1971 he headed Arbeiderbevegelsens utredningskontor.
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Per Kleppe was the Minister of Trade and Shipping in the first cabinet Bratteli from 17 March 1971 to 18 October 1972.
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Per Kleppe was appointed by Prime Minister Bratteli as Minister of Finance from 16 October 1973, in the second cabinet Bratteli.
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Per Kleppe continued as Minister of Finance until 8 October 1979, when there was a reorganisation of the cabinet, and Ulf Sand took over as responsible for the Ministry of Finance.
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Per Kleppe served six years as Minister of Finance, and he was the architect behind several important strategic choices of economic policy.
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From 1 January 1980 Per Kleppe was assigned the inaugural leader of the Secretariat for Long-Term Planning, under the cabinet Nordli until 4 February 1981.
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Per Kleppe continued in this position under Brundtland's First Cabinet until 14 October 1981.
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In 1981 Per Kleppe took over as general secretary of the European Free Trade Association, succeeding Swiss Charles Muller.
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Per Kleppe held this position until 1988, when he was succeeded by Austrian Georg Reisch.
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Per Kleppe chaired several government commissions in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the Monetary and Credit Commission, the Employment Commission, and the State Bank Commission.
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Per Kleppe was a member of the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities.
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Per Kleppe was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Christ, the Order of the Yugoslav Flag with Golden Star on Cravat, the Grand Cross of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon, the Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star, and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
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Per Kleppe was decorated Commander with Star of the Order of St Olav in 1989.