Arne Simonsen

Arne Simonsen (born 1941) is a Norwegian civil servant.

He was born in Haugesund, and graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Bergen. He worked as a civil servant in Bergen municipality, the Norwegian Central Information Service, the Ministry of Church and Education, and the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration.cite news |title=Arne Simonsen ny direktør i Statens Informasjonstjeneste |author=Norwegian News Agency |authorlink=Norwegian News Agency |date=8 June 1993 |work= |language=Norwegian] From September 1992 to June 1993 he was a political advisor for the Minister of Social Affairs in the third cabinet Brundtland. [ [http://www.regjeringen.no/en/The-Government/previous-governments/the-structure-of-the-registry/governments/modern-times/governments-since-1945/gro-harlem-brundtlands-third-government-.html?id=438731 Gro Harlem Brundtland's Third Government 3 November 1990 - 25 October 1996] - Government.no]

In 1993 he was appointed director of the Norwegian Central Information Service ("Statens Informasjonstjeneste"), succeeding Odd Strand who had reached the age limit.b] The Norwegian Central Information Service no longer exists, as it was merged into Statskonsult in 2001. [ [http://www.caplex.no/Web/ArticleView.aspx?id=9333641 Statens Informasjonstjeneste] on Caplex Encyclopedia]

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