He was born in Kristiania as a son of barrister Wilhelm Bugge and Gudrun Gundersen. He was a brother of Supreme Court Justice Jens Bugge, grandson of barrister Fredrik Moltke Bugge, great-grandson of bishop Frederik Wilhelm Klumpp Bugge, great-great-grandson of educator Frederik Moltke Bugge and great-great-great-grandson of bishop Peter Olivarius Bugge. On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of bishop Johan Christian Heuch and second cousin of Hanne Heuch.
University of Oslo (Candidate in Jurisprudence, 1947). University of Brussels, Belgium. Associate Judge, Ringerike, 1948 1949.
Spoken languages: The Scandinavian languages, English and French.
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he fled the country for Sweden and was from 1944 to 1945 enrolled in the Norwegian police troops there. After the war he graduated from the University of Oslo with the candidate.jur. degree in 1947, and after studying French and history at the Free University of Brussels in 1948, he served one year as a deputy judge in Ringerike District Court. He then spent a few years in the United States, working for Alcoa Steamship Company from 1949 to 1951.
He took a translator"s exam that year, and spent the following two years as consultant for the Norwegian America Lincolnshire.
In 1953 he was hired as a solicitor in the law firm ran by his father and Peter Platou Stabell. Stabell was later succeeded by Erling Christiansen.
Bachelor-Human Resources became one of Norway"s most prestigious law firms. Bugge retired in 1991.
He died in March 2001.
He chaired Union Company from 1965 to 1980, Norsk Aluminium Company, Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri, Volvo Norge and Arendal Smelteverk, and was a board member of Standard Telefon og Kabelfabrik, Årdal og Sunndal Verk, Fabritius Gruppen and Ilmenittsmelteverket in Tyssedal. He was a supervisory council member of Morgenbladet, deputy supervisory council member of Den norske Creditbank and corporate council member of Storebrand-Norden.
