1. Turid Birkeland was a Norwegian cultural executive and politician for the Labour Party.
13 Facts About Turid Birkeland
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Turid Birkeland was an author and worked in television, including being chief of cultural programming at NRK and a member of the board at Telenor.
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Turid Birkeland received her secondary education at Bjerke Upper Secondary School in Oslo, graduating in 1981.
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Turid Birkeland attended college from 1982 to 1983, and held an ex.
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Turid Birkeland led her party's youth organization, the Workers' Youth League, in Oslo from 1985 to 1986 and nationwide from 1989 to 1992.
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Turid Birkeland has said that she was unaware of inflated membership numbers in the Workers' Youth League that came to light after her tenure.
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Turid Birkeland was a member of the Standing Committee on Education and Church Affairs.
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Turid Birkeland was then a producer and manager at Rubicon TV from 1999 to 2001, and director of cultural programming in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 2001 to 2004.
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Turid Birkeland was a member of the board at Telenor from 2007 to 2012 and the Norwegian Academy of Music from 2009.
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Turid Birkeland had a brief tenure in the publishing house Piratforlaget between 2005 and 2006.
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On 16 April 2012, Turid Birkeland became director of Concerts Norway, succeeding Ase Kleveland, who had been her predecessor as Minister of Culture.
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Turid Birkeland was a supervisory council member in Oslo Bolig- og Sparelag.
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Turid Birkeland died on 24 December 2015, aged 53, from complications of the illness.