Sverre Lodgaard is a Norwegian political scientist and politician for the 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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He graduated from 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...

 with the cand.polit.

Cand.polit.

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 degree in 1971. He was director of European Security and Disarmament Studies from 1980 to 1986, of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) from 1987 to 1992, of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

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 from 1992 to 1996 and of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs from 1997 to 2007. In 2007 he stepped down as director, but continued as a researcher.

In the Labour Party Lodgaard has chaired the international committee.