Education
After settling in Ringerike municipality, he studied -and worked as an interpreter, before studying Law at the University of Oslo, receiving his law degree in 1997.
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Ahmad Ghanizadeh
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Since 2012, he is serving as State Secretary in the Ministry of Children and Equality. Born in Iran in 1961, he was first employed as a journalist and teacher while studying engineering and telecommunication at the University of Tehran. He first emigrated to Norway as at age 25, before completing his degree.
After graduating from Law school in 1997, Ghanizadeh was employed as deputy director at the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, then under Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad.
First as a consultant, and later as deputy director From 1 January 2005 he was appointed as head of the new Section for Integration and Diversity after his previous department was merged into the newly established Ministry of Labour, he was then put in charge of managing the Norwegian government"s immigrant absorption policy.
He subsequently switched to the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. And in 2012, he was promoted to the position of State Secretary, which was second only to the minister Inga Marte Thorkildsen.
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Socialist Left Party