The Government Director of Personnel is a Norwegian position in the civil service.

The director leads the Department of Employer Policy within the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs. According to the Public Service Disputes Act the sitting director is also a member of the National Wages Board

National Wages Board

The National Wages Board is a Norwegian body for resolving labour disputes.Its task is to perform a compulsory arbitration when negotiations of parties in Norwegian working life stall, and if the conflict has "consequences for life or health, or has other seriously damaging effects on society"...

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The Department of Employer Policy was formerly organized as a directorate

Directorate

A directorate is an agency usually headed by a director, often a subdivision of a major government department.* Immigration and Nationality Directorate* Dairat al-Mukhabarat al-Ammah * Veterinary Medicines Directorate...

, the State Directorate of Personnel .

List of Government Directors of Personnel

• As directors of the State Directorate of Personnel:
  • 1945–1948 : Henrik Lundh
    Henrik Lundh
    Henrik Julius Lundh was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Kristiania as a son of Ragnar Lundh and Aggie Olsen . From 1919 he was married to Ragnhild Tandberg, but she died in 1922. From 1924 he was married to Elise Caroline Aubert .He finished his secondary education in 1911, and enrolled...
    
    
  • 1948–1974 : Bjarne Døhlen
    Bjarne Døhlen
    Bjarne Døhlen was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1927, and worked as a deputy judge in Sør-Gudbrandsdal from 1928 to 1930. In 1930 he worked briefly as a junior solicitor before being hired in the Ministry of Finance. He advanced to assistant...
    
    
  • 1974–1990 : Nils Mugaas
    Nils Mugaas
    Nils Rustung Mugaas was a Norwegian trade unionist and civil servant.He was born in Ullensvang. He chaired Statstjenestemannskartellet from 1969 to 1974 and Statens Personaldirektorat from 1974 to 1990...
    
    
• As leaders of the Department of Employer Policy:
  • 1990–1995 : Aud Blankholm
  • 1995–2003 : Per Engebretsen
    Per Engebretsen
    Per Engebretsen is a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Oslo, and holds the cand.oecon. degree in economics. He was a negiotiator in Akademikernes Fellesorganisasjon from 1981 to 1988, secretary-general in the Norwegian Association of Pharmacists from 1988 to 1989 and director in the Ministry...
    
    
    • 2002 : Finn Melbø, while Engebretsen was acting director of Aetat
      Aetat
      Aetat was a Norwegian Norwegian government agency responsible for battling unemployment.-History:It had its roots in the Directorate of Labour , which was founded in 1945. Its purpose was to "prevent and remedy" unemployment in the Norwegian society. The name Aetat was taken into use in 2000, when...
      
      
  • 2003–2004 : Per Kristian Knutsen (acting)
  • 2004–2008 : Jørn Skille
    Jørn Skille
    Jørn Skille was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Oslo, and took a military education. He was an officer in the Royal Norwegian Air Force from 1962 to 1976 and worked in the Ministry of Defence from 1976. He then moved to the Ministry of Government Administration and Consumer Affairs in...
    
    
  • 2008–present : Siri Røine
    Siri Røine
    Siri Røine is a Norwegian civil servant.She was born in Oslo, and took education as a dental hygienist and jurist. She has worked as assisting head negotiator in the trade union Norwegian Nurses Organisation, and then worked in the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities and the...