Kari Garmann

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Kari Garmann (née Gram; born 16 June 1945) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

She was born in Oslo as a daughter of barrister Peder "Per" Gram and alpine skier Johanne "Hannemor" Gram, née Dybwad.[1] Her paternal grandparents were physician Harald Mathias "Mads" Gram and art historian Irma Ingertha Schram. Her maternal grandfather was barrister Nils Juell Dybwad;[2] great-grandparents Vilhelm Dybwad and Johanne Dybwad.

She

cand.polit. degree in 1973. She worked as a consultant in Oslo Municipality from 1972, then from 1976 to 1980 as a secretary for the Oslo Conservative Party's city council group.[1]

She was a member of Oslo city council from 1979 to 1987, spending six years as a deputy member of the executive committee. She was elected as a deputy representative to the

Parliament of Norway from Oslo in 1985, and was re-elected as such in 1989. She twice served as a regular member of Parliament, first moving up to fill the seat of Kåre Willoch who led Willoch's Second Cabinet and later for Kristin Clemet who was a member of Syse's Cabinet.[1]

In 1991 she took an MBA at the BI Norwegian Business School. From 1992 to 1995 she was the director of Norges Postbank, then an independent consultant in Scandinavian Management Consultants.[1] From 2004 to her retirement in 2012 she was a secretary in the organization Oslo Region.

Garmann has been a board member of Diakonhjemmet Hospital from 1984 to 1988 and Oslo Bolig- og Sparelag from 1987. She has also been a programme councillor for NRK Østlandssendingen from 1984 to 1987.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Kari Garmann" (in Norwegian). Storting.
  2. ^ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Gram, Peder". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 184. Retrieved 21 June 2012.