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What did you want to be when you were a child?

I wanted to play and have fun. I had a carefree childhood in Fredrikstad with sea and sunshine. The first time I started thinking about this was in year 6 at primary school. We were going to restore our house, and I wanted to be an architect. 

I have always focused on having fun. For that I am quite glad. Many people are focused on the future. I didn’t think about it. I grew up in a safe environment where children from different backgrounds played together whether your father was a brain surgeon or a driver.

What is your favourite tool in the office?

My chair. Lately I have been away a lot. I worry that I don’t get to talk to people as much as I usually do. I like it when people come over to talk.

What is your hidden talent?

For someone who is as bad at playing the guitar as me, I am quite good at using my guitar to write songs and lyrics. Rather than sitting down with a book, I sometimes sit down at night and strum my guitar a bit. I thing I am quite good at getting a message out in lyrics and a melody, on an amateur level of course. It is a channel for getting things both out of and into the system. Being in touch with myself. I like that.

What are you reading?

I don’t read much fiction outside of holidays. There is so much work reading to do. So I take the boys to football practice, but my wife reads a lot and she keeps me up to date so that I manage OK in social settings.