Education
Having graduated as siv.øk.
Government Director of Personnel
Having graduated as siv.øk.
From Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, she embarked on a career as a civil servant. She first worked in the Ministry of Finance, then as a sub-director and deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Culture. Foreign some time she was also deputy director in the International Maritime Organisation.
She was appointed director of the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund in 1994, leaving in 2004.
After this she has been a deputy member of the board of the Government Pension Fund - Norway and chairman of the board of the Norwegian Film Fund.