Career
He took his candidate.mag. degree at the University of Oslo. From 1997 to 2000 he was a political advisor in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and from February to March 2000 he was appointed State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister. Between 2002 and 2006 he served as secretary-general of Friends of the Earth Norway.
He was a former assisting secretary-general.
He left in December 2006, and became Chief Executive Officer of EnPro in February 2007. He resigned later in 2007, and was hired as leader of the "Green Team" in Burson-Marsteller.
He was also hired as manager of the foundation Green in Practice, but he backed out as the existence of the foundation was threatened. In 2009 he became manager of Jernbanealliansen.
