K%C3%A5re Willoch


Kre Isaachsen Willoch bornOctober 1928 is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party. He served as Minister of Trade and Shipping in 1963 and 19651970, as President of the Nordic Council in 1973, and as Prime Minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986. Willoch was Chairman of the Conservative Party 19701974.

Willoch was born onOctober 1928, in Oslo, to Haakon Isaachsen Willoch and his wife Agnes Christine Saure . He grew up in the West End of Oslo, and took examen artium in 1947. After that, he studied economics at the University of Oslo, where he was taught by the Nobel Prize winners Trygve Haavelmo and Ragnar Frisch. He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1953. Since 1951, Willoch was a member of the Oslo city council, and in 1954 he became a deputy in the Parliament of Norway. He became a member of parliament after the 1957 parliamentary election, and was withyears the then youngest MP.

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