About Odd Rikard Olsen
Lived 1947 – 2012 (aged 64). Odd Rikard Olsen was a Norwegian politician and editing staff.
Odd Rikard Olsen (18 June 1947 – 10 April 2012) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Tromsø and grew up in Kvænangen Municipality. After the examen artium he started working as an office clerk in Hammerfest in 1968. He was later hired as a journalist in Finnmarksposten, Bladet Tromsø, Aftenposten and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. He was then editor-in-chief of Sør-Varanger Avis from 1982 to 1990 and Harstad Tidende from 1991 to 2004, then political editor in Harstad Tidende from 2004 until his death.
He has been a board member of the Association of Norwegian Editors. In politics, he was a member of Finnmark county council from 1987 to 1990 and State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Syse's Cabinet.
He died in April 2012 in his Harstad home.
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Who was Odd Rikard Olsen?
Norwegian politician
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Odd Rikard Olsen was born on 18 June 1947 in Tromsø Municipality.
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Odd Rikard Olsen died on 10 April 2012 in Harstad Municipality.
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Odd Rikard Olsen was a politician and editing staff.
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Odd Rikard Olsen was Norwegian.
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