Education
University of Oslo; Indiana University.
University of Oslo; Indiana University.
From July to October 1973 he was a State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade as a part of Korvald"s Cabinet. Jansen was born in Lærdal. He started his career in the Royal Norwegian Navy, and then studied political science at the University of Oslo.
He graduated in 1967, took the Master of Public Administration degree at Indiana University in 1970 and the dr.philos. degree at the University of Bergen in 1989.
He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bath and the University of Warwick, and a part-time researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics.
He was also a member of the executive committee of Bergen city council from 1979 to 1983.