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About Odd Strand
- Odd Strand (21 August 1925 – 18 May 2008) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Aure, but grew up in Trondheim.
- During the German occupation of Norway he was a member of Milorg.
- He later studied at the University of Oslo, graduating as cand.philol.
- and later magister in political science in 1953. He started a career in government ministries and agencies, and was appointed director of the Norwegian Central Information Service upon its creation in 1965.
- He remained director until 1993, when he reached the age limit.
- He was succeeded by Arne Simonsen.
- Statens Informasjonstjeneste no longer exists, as it was merged into Statskonsult in 2001.
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