Hans Olav Østgaard [SEP] occupation
Hans Olav Østgaard
Hans Olav Østgaard (born 13 October 1944) is a Norwegian jurist.
He was born in Oslo, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1969. He was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1970, and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1982. In 1993 he was appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency. He was pressured to resign in 1996, as the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee found it unacceptable that Berge Furre had been
- 1993–1996 : Hans Olav Østgaard
- 1996–1997 : Ellen Holager Andenæs ("acting")
- 1997–2003 : Per Sefland
- 2003–2004 : Arnstein Øverkil ("acting")
- 2004–2009 : Jørn Holme
- 2009 : Roger Berg ("acting")
- 2009–2012 : Janne Kristiansen
- 2012 : Roger Berg ("acting")
- 2012–present : Marie Benedicte Bjørnland
External links.
- Law on oversight of Intelligence, Surveillance and Security Agencies