Knut Brofoss is a Norwegian civil servant.

He was born in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 as a son of Erik Brofoss

Erik Brofoss

Erik Brofoss was a Norwegian economist and politician for the Labour Party.Brofoss was born in Kongsberg. In his younger days he was an athlete who competed national level in the 100 metres. He represented Kongsberg IF, and won a silver medal at the Norwegian championships in 1928...

. He took the cand.jur. degree, and was hired in the Ministry of Justice and the Police

Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police is a Norwegian government ministry in charge of justice, police and domestic intelligence. The main purpose of the Ministry is to provide for the maintenance and development of the basic guarantees of the rule of law...

 in 1975. From 1983 he worked in the Ministry of Social Affairs. He was deputy under-secretary of state from 1988 to 1999, and acting permanent under-secretary of state in 1999. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as a prosecutor in the Norwegian National Authority for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime. He then became general director of the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research

Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research

The Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research is a social science research institute based in Oslo, Norway.It was established in 2001 as a merger of the National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research and a department within the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs...

. In 2005 he was appointed as director of the National Insurance Court

National Insurance Court

The National Insurance Court is an appeals court for welfare cases in Norway.It was established by law on 16 December 1966. Its purpose is to judge in cases where decisions by the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service have been appealed...

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He is married to Ingse Stabel

Ingse Stabel

Inger-Else "Ingse" Stabel is a Norwegian judge.She was born in Oslo as a daughter of Supreme Court Justice Carl Ludovico Stabel and Karen Andrea Elisabeth Eide . She is a niece of Fredrik Stabel. She family moved from Tøyen to Bygdøy when Stabel was 8 years old, and she finished her secondary...

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