Kjell-Idar Juvik is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician

Politician

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 for the Norwegian Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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Born in Hemnesberget

Hemnesberget

Hemnesberget is a small town in the municipality of Hemnes, Norway. Its population is 1,337....

, Helgeland

Helgeland

Helgeland is the most southerly district in Northern Norway. Generally speaking, Helgeland refers to the part of Nordland county that is located south of the Arctic Circle. The district covers an area of about , with nearly 79,000 inhabitants...

, Kjell-Idar Juvik has been a member of Hemnes

Hemnes

Hemnes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Korgen.- Municipality history :...

 municipality council since 1987, and served as mayor

Mayor

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 since 2003. Juvik gained national media attention as one of the four mayors that fronted his municipality and seven others in the Terra Securities scandal

Terra Securities scandal

The Terra Securities scandal was a scandal that became public in November 2007. It involved highly speculative investments by eight municipalities of Norway in various hedge funds in the United States bond market. The funds were sold by Terra Securities to the municipalities, while the products...

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He is the nephew of former parliament member Sverre Johan Juvik

Sverre Johan Juvik

Sverre Johan Juvik is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sogn og Fjordane in 1969, and was re-elected on one occasion. On the local level he was a member of Årdal municipality council from 1951 to 1958...

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