- Per Kleppe
Per Andreas Hildte Kleppe (born
13 April 1923 inOslo ) is a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party.As an elected politician he served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from
Oslo in during the term 1954–1957. On the local level he was a deputy member ofOslo city council from 1951 to 1955.Kleppe graduated from the
University of Oslo with thecand.oecon. degree in 1956. He was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1957 to 1962. He was the Minister of Trade and Shipping in 1971–1972 during thefirst cabinet Bratteli , and later headed the Ministry of Finance from 1973 to 1979 during thesecond cabinet Bratteli and thecabinet Nordli . In 1979 he was replaced byUlf Sand , but Kleppe returned in 1981 to head the Secretariat for Long-Term Planning (until 1981).In 1981 he took over as general secretary of the
European Free Trade Association , a position he held until 1988.References
*stortingetbio|PEKL
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.