Victor Norman is dead – news Vestland

Victor Norman was a prominent community voice and Conservative cabinet minister. He will be remembered for the government jobs he moved out of Oslo in 2003, when he was a minister in Kjell Magne Bondevik’s second government. As Minister of Labor and Administration, he had eight inspectorates and 900 jobs moved out of Oslo and to other cities in Norway. Became professor at 28 Victor Danielsen Norman was born on 24 July 1946 in Risør. He lived most of his life in Bergen. In the news program Sommer i P2 in 2015, Norman described himself as a “practicing and enthusiastic Bergener”, but added that he still had the soul of his birthplace Risør. Norman was a social economist, educated at Yale University in the USA in 1969. He completed his doctorate at MIT in 1972. In 1971 he was employed at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen, and became a professor in 1975, aged 28. He was headmaster at the same school from 1999 to 2001. – Will miss you deeply and deeply In 2006, Norman married Christine Meyer, who is now a city councilor in Bergen. Meyer was Norman’s state secretary in the Bondevik II government from 2001 to 2003. “My lover, wonderful husband and very best friend fell asleep quietly last night. I will miss you deeply and sincerely,” Meyer writes on his Facebook page. City councilor in Bergen, Christine Meyer (H), was married to Normann. Photo: Lars Christian Wallace / news Norman held a number of public and private positions. Among other things, he was chairman of the board of Citibank and Agder Teater. He also sat on several public committees on both sides of the turn of the millennium. In 2020 at the latest, as head of the Demography Committee, he submitted a public report that presented measures to prevent people moving from the districts. Norman was also a columnist in Aftenposten and Dagens Næringsliv. He also published several books on economics and foreign trade. From 2011 to 2015, he sat on the city council in Bergen. Published 21.09.2024, at 10.47 Updated 21.09.2024, at 10.55



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