Kurt Mosbakk

Kurt Mosbakk (born 21 November 1934) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1986 to 1987, when the ministry was closed; he continued on as the Minister of Trade and Shipping Affairs at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until June 1988. He served as the acting County Governor of Finnmark county for about five months during 1990.

Personal life He was born on 21 November 1934 in Orkdal Municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. He was the son of a joiner and a housewife, Henrik and Jenny Marthea Mosbakk.

Education and career Mosbakk took his primary and secondary education in Orkanger and Trondheim respectively, before taking higher education at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration from 1955 to 1958 and Harvard University from 1965 to 1966.

From 1964 to 1965, under the fourth cabinet Gerhardsen, he worked as a personal secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Defence. He had been chairman of the Workers' Youth League in Oslo from 1961 to 1963, and deputy chairman of the Workers' Youth League nationally from 1964 to 1967.

Mosbakk was a member of the board of Framfylkingen from 1972 to 1974 and the Norwegian State Housing Bank from 1978 to 1986. He was then chairman of the board of the Norwegian State Housing Bank from 1988 to 1998, and of the bank SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge from 1989 to 2000.