Eskild Jensen

Eskild Jensen (born 28 April 1925) is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Oslo,cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title=Jensen, Eskild |encyclopedia=Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location= |url=http://www.snl.no/article.html?id=613995 ] and graduated as siviløkonom from the University of Oslo. [cite book |title=Norsk vegpolitikk etter 1960 |last=Knutsen |first=Sverre |coauthors=Knut Boge |year=2005 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |isbn=978-82-02-24348-7 |pages=286 ] In 1961 he was hired in the Ministry of Finance. He worked for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation from 1962 to 1967 and 1969 to 1974. In 1974 he was appointed deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Transport and Communications before serving as state secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister from 1976 to 1980, as part of the cabinet Nordli. From 1980 to 1992 he served as director of the Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads.b]

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