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About Tom Thoresen
- Tom Thoresen (born 16 May 1947 in Glemmen) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1977, and was re-elected on five occasions. On the local level Thoresen was a member of Fredrikstad city council from 1971 to 1987. Outside politics he graduated as candidatus philologiae in 1974 and worked one year as a high school teacher.
- From 1983 to 1987 he was deputy leader of the now-defunct government agency Likestillingsrådet.
- In 2002 he was appointed director of Statens Medieforvaltning, which was merged with other institutions in 2005 to become the Norwegian Media Authority.
- Thoresen continued as director.
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