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Dagfinn Høybråten’s new Nordic project: health cooperation

Much tighter cooperation between Nordic health services is in the pipeline and if it succeeds the cooperation model can easily be expanded to include other policy areas which would help develop the Nordic welfare model. That’s the vision of the project’s chief architect, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers Dagfinn Høybråten.
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Dagfinn Høybråten’s CV
  1. Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers since 4 March 2013.
  2. Active in Norwegian political life for more than 30 years, including seven years as Minister for Health, Minister for Labour and Social Affairs for the Christian Democrats.
  3. Long experience as a public official, including head of Norway’s National Insurance Service between 1997 and 2004.
  4. Degree in politics from the University of Oslo in 1984
  5. Has written several books
  6. 55 years old
  7. Married with four children

 

1 minute interview

What book are you currently reading?

I often return to a book by another Secretary General: Dag Hammarskjöld’s ‘Markings’. It contains great life wisdom.

Which work tool do you appreciate the most in your office?

The most indispensable of my electronic tools must be my tablet.

What is your hidden talent?

I have a weakness for impersonations.

As a child, what did you want to become when you grew up?

As a child my dream was to become a farmer like my grandfather.

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