Jon Ola Norbom

Jon Ola Hauger Norbom (born 15 December 1923 in Bærum) is a Norwegian economist and politician for the Liberal Party.

During World War II, in 1942, Norbom was imprisoned for a brief time at Grini prison camp. Then, in November 1943, he was among the students who were arrested by the German occupying forces in Norway as part of a general imprisonment of all male, non-NS students at the University of Oslo. He was imprisoned in the German concentration camp Buchenwald. ["Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940-1945" (Oslo, 2004)]

From 1950 to 1952 he was the leader of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. He was State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1967 to 1969, during the cabinet Borten, and became Minister of the Finance in 1972–1973 during the cabinet Korvald. Norbom never held elected political office.stortingetbio|JONO]

A cand.oecon. by education, he worked in the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United Nations and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) during the 1950s and 1960s.stortingetbio|JONO]

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