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He has his education from the Norwegian School of Management, the Institute of Transport Economics and the University of Tromsø and has worked as a researcher at Molde University College. He has also edited the newspaper Finnmark Tidende and been chief executive of Fiskeindustriens Landsforening. From 1981 to 1983 he was a State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, as a part of Willoch"s First Cabinet.
He resides in Tromsø.
He contributed to the failed 2018 Winter Olympic bid for Tromsø.
In politics, he was a central committee member of the Norwegian Young Conservatives and secretary for the Conservative Party in Finnmark.