Olav Myklebust (17 January 1932 – 1 November 2011) was a Norwegian civil servant, diplomat and politician for the Liberal Party.
He hailed from Sunnmøre and took the cand.psychol. degree in 1957. He worked in NAVF and the Norwegian Computing Center. From 1962 to 1964 he was the leader of the Young Liberals, the youth wing of the Liberal Party; and from 1964 to 1968 he was the secretary-general of the Liberal Party. [1] [2]
Sunnmøre is the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. Its main city is Ålesund. The region comprises the municipalities of Giske, Hareid, Herøy, Norddal, Sande, Skodje, Haram, Stordal, Stranda, Sula, Sykkylven, Ulstein, Vanylven, Volda, Ørskog, Ørsta, and Ålesund.
Candidatus psychologiae (male), or candidata psychologiae (female), abbreviated as cand.psychol., is a higher-level professional degree currently awarded in Norway in the field of clinical psychology. The cand.psychol. degree is awarded by the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, the University of Tromsø, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The degree requires at least 6 years to complete.
Norwegian Computing Center is a private, independent, non-profit research foundation founded in 1952. NR carries out contract research and development in the areas of computing and quantitative methods for a broad range of industrial, commercial and public service organisations in the national and international markets. NR's projects cover a large variety of applied and academic problems. NR has its offices near the university campus Blindern in Oslo, Norway, as part of what is known as Forskningsparken, Park of Research.
He was hired in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) in 1968, became Norad's representative in Tanzania in 1972 and advanced to head of department in 1976. In 1989 he became deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Development Cooperation, continuing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when the two ministries were merged. Between 1992 and 1998 he was Norway's ambassador to Namibia, then Malawi. [1] [2] While serving in Namibia he was also posted as ambassador to Angola. [3]
Not to be confused with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also abbreviated NORAD.
Tanzania officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands at the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in north-eastern Tanzania.
The Norwegian Ministry of Development Cooperation was a Norwegian ministry effective from 1 January 1984 and disestablished 31 December 1989. From 1 January 1990 the ministry was included as a department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Reidun Brusletten served as the Minister of Development Cooperation from 1984 to 1986, Vesla Vetlesen from 1986 to 1988, Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl from 1988 to 1989, and Tom Vraalsen from 1989.
He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav and died in November 2011. [1] [2]
The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on August 21, 1847. It is named after King Olav II, known to posterity as St. Olav.
