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Håvard Holm

Norwegian civil servant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ16106295 ↗
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Håvard Endre Holm (15 December 1943 – 28 July 2017) was a Norwegian civil servant.

He is a cand.jur. by education. He was hired in the Ministry of the Environment in 1972, and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1989. From 1996 to 31 December 2006 he served as director of the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority, the first year as acting director. He thereafter worked as an advisor with the same agency.

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“Håvard Holm” enters the record as norwegian civil servant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Håvard, Holm and Norwegian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Håvard Holm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.