Raimo Valle (born 15 September 1965) is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.
He hails from Nesseby Municipality. [1] He graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Tromsø in 1989. Outside politics he worked as a consultant in Troms County Municipality from 1993 to 2007. He was a board member of the Centre for Sami Studies, University of Tromsø after graduating, was the county leader of the Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations in Troms from 1999 to 2003 and from 2001 to 2007 he was a board member of the Association of Social Scientists. [2]
In 2007, he was appointed to Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. He left office in 2012. [2]
Troms is a county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea. The county had a population of 169,610 in 2024.
Tromsø is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Other notable settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjerkaker, Ersfjordbotn, Jøvika, Kaldfjord, Kjosen, Kroken, Kvaløysletta, Lakselvbukt, Melvika, Movik, Oldervik, Sandneshamn, Sjursnes, Sommarøy, and Tromsdalen.
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Tromsø, Romsa (Northern Sami), or Tromssa (Kven) is a city in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the administrative centre of Troms county. The Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland and its Bishop are based at the Tromsø Cathedral in the city. The city is located on the island of Tromsøya which sits in the Tromsøysundet strait, just off the mainland of Northern Norway. The mainland suburb of Tromsdalen is connected to the city centre on Tromsøya by the Tromsø Bridge and the Tromsøysund Tunnel. The suburb of Kvaløysletta on the island of Kvaløya is connected to the city centre by the Sandnessund Bridge.