About Vidar Bjørnstad
Born 1955. Vidar Bjørnstad is a Norwegian politician and trade unionist.
Vidar Bjørnstad (born 1 September 1955 in Tolga Municipality) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Career He graduated with the cand.mag. degree from the University of Oslo in 1979. He later studied briefly at the George Washington University. From 1986 to 1987, during the second cabinet Brundtland, he was appointed personal secretary for the Minister of Foreign Development. He also worked in Amnesty International and the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1993, and was re-elected on three occasions. On the local level he was a deputy member of the municipal council for Bærum Municipality from 1991 to 1995.
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