Per Schreiner was a Norwegian economist and 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 Fredrik Schreiner

Fredrik Schreiner

Fredrik Elster Schreiner was a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Drøbak, and moved to Kristiania at the age of ten. He studied law, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1928. In his youth he was a member of the revolutionary group Mot Dag.He was hired as a secretary in the National...

 (1905–1988) and Signy Rønneberg (1903–1983). He was a grandson of Kristian

Kristian Schreiner

Kristian Schreiner was a Norwegian professor of medicine.He was born in Ekeberg as a son of wholesaler Christian Emil Schreiner and Bethy Gerhardine Bødtker . He was a relative of educator Emil Schreiner. In September 1900 he married Alette Falch...

 and Alette Schreiner

Alette Schreiner

Alette Schreiner, Falch was a Norwegian researcher.She was born in Christiania, daughter of district stipendiary magistrate Ingvald Falch and Alette Louise Aubert . She was a great-granddaughter of Benoni Aubert. She grew up in Eidsvoll. In September 1900 she married Kristian Schreiner...

 and a nephew of Johan Schreiner

Johan Schreiner

Johan Christian Schreiner was a Norwegian historian. He was a professor at the University of Oslo, and his speciality was the Middle Ages.-Personal life:...

.

After finishing

Examen artium

Examen artium was the name of the academic certification conferred in Denmark and Norway, qualifying the student for admission to university studies. Examen artium was originally introduced as the entrance exam of the University of Copenhagen in 1630...

 his secondary education in 1950, he enrolled at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 where he graduated in with the cand.oecon.

Cand.oecon.

Candidatus oeconomices or Candidata oeconomices , often abbreviated cand.oecon. is an academic degree in economics at Danish and Norwegian universities. It is roughly equivalent to a Master of Economics, but it consists of 4+2 years, and was based on a four year cand.mag.. The degree was replaced...

 degree in 1958. He was then a researcher and assistant at the University of Oslo, the Centraal Planbureau and Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. He was hired as a consultant in the Ministry of Finance

Norwegian Ministry of Finance

The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Finance is a Norwegian ministry established in 1814. The ministry is responsible for state finance, including the state budget, taxation and economic policy in Norway. It is led by Sigbjørn Johnsen...

 in 1963, and was quickly promoted to assistant secretary in 1965 and deputy under-secretary og state in 1971. From 1989 he was again a consultant, before leaving in 1992. He then spent some time studying at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 and working for the consultant company Econ.

He was also a board member of Pax Forlag

Pax Forlag

Pax Forlag is a Norwegian publishing house, established in 1964.Pax Forlag has issued a selected reprint of the "working class" encyclopaedia Arbeidernes Leksikon in 1974, and the political encyclopaedia Pax Leksikon ....

. He died in October 2005 in Oslo.