Jan Andersen-Gott is a Norwegian naval officer and trade unionist.

He was born in Vågå

Vågå

Vågå is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vågåmo....

, and lives at Jarmyra. He took his education at the Norwegian Naval Academy

Norwegian Naval Academy

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 and the Sjøforsvarets stabsskole, worked as an active naval Commander before being secretary of Sjømilitære Samfund and the naval officers' trade union. From 1987 to 1993 he led the Confederation of Vocational Unions

Confederation of Vocational Unions

The Confederation of Vocational Unions is a national trade union center, an umbrella organization of labour unions in Norway.It was established in 1977 as a non-partisan alternative to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions . As at 2009 it had about 215,000 members...

. He then worked in the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities

Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities

The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities is an employers' organisation in Norway.It was founded in 1972 as a merger between the Union of Norwegian Cities and the Norwegian Association of Rural Municipalities...

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