Inger Elise Birkeland (born 1954 in Årdal) is a Norwegian civil servant and Labour Party politician. Since 2005 she has served as Director of the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, a government-owned research institute. She was a political adviser to Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland in the Prime Minister's Office from 1992 to 1996.[1][2] She was also a member of the Oslo city council from 1992 to 1996. She worked as a civil servant at the Norwegian Directorate of Health from 1978 to 1983, at the Royal Ministry of Health from 1997 to 1998 and as a consultant at IBM Global Services from 1998 to 2005.[3]

Inger Elise Birkeland
Director of the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born1954
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyLabour Party

References edit

  1. ^ "Ny rådgiver hos statsministeren" [Press release from the Prime Minister's Office: New political adviser to the Prime Minister] (PDF). Prime Minister's Office. 14 July 1992.
  2. ^ "Klart for Arbeiderpartiets Spice Girls". Dagbladet. 14 March 2000.
  3. ^ "Birkeland, Inger Elise". Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies.