Oscar D. Hillgaar

Oscar Douglas Hillgaar (born 8 November 1945) is a Norwegian politician formerly representing the Progress Party.

He was born in Holt Municipality, Norway, and is of Irish descent. He attended the Norwegian Naval Academy from 1966 to 1967, and served in the Royal Norwegian Navy in Tromsø from 1967 to 1968. He worked as an air traffic controller assistant at Lakselv Airport, Banak from 1968 to 1969, then took air traffic controller education from 1969 to 1971. After completing his education he worked at Bodø, Bardufoss, Karmøy and Fornebu until 1989. Ahead of the convention he had submitted party-critical resolutions together with Ellen Wibe, Ellen Christine Christiansen, Stephen Bråthen and Roy Wetterstad. The group had some support, but was a clear minority. During the convention, Hillgaar publicly lamented the "Moscow processes" of the convention, and also the views on women and the "extreme xenophobia" which he felt was conveyed by the party program. He left the party a week after the convention. but this did not happen.

From 1997 to 2005 he worked as a supervisor at the Oslo Air Traffic Control Center. From 1998 to 2000 he was also a secretary for the trade union Norwegian Air Traffic Controllers' Association. From 1999 to 2002 he was the deputy chair of the Norwegian Labour Party in Sandefjord. From 2003 to 2007 he served a fourth term in Sandefjord's municipal council. Already in 1994 he had stated that were it not for the circumstances in Sandefjord politics, he might as well have joined the Labour Party—or the Conservative Party—already in the 1980s.