Petter Skarheim (born 12 June 1962) is a Norwegian civil servant. He is Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and Research. [1]
In 2004 he was appointed director of the newly established Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. He had been a deputy under-secretary of State in the Ministry of Education and Research from 1998 to 2004. [2]
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