Ulf Sand

Ulf Oscar Sand (22 May 1938 – 29 December 2014) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.

Ulf Sand
Minister of Finance
In office 8 October 1979 – 14 October 1981
Prime Minister	Odvar Nordli Gro Harlem Brundtland
Preceded by	Per Kleppe
Succeeded by	Rolf Presthus
State Secretary for the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Administration
In office 22 October 1973 – 9 October 1977
Prime Minister	Trygve Bratteli Odvar Nordli
Minister	Odd Sagør Annemarie Lorentzen
In office 8 May 1972 – 18 October 1972
Prime Minister	Trygve Bratteli
Minister	Inger Louise Valle
State Secretary for the Ministry of Pay and Prices
In office 19 March 1971 – 8 May 1972
Prime Minister	Trygve Bratteli
Minister	Olav Gjærevoll
Personal details
Born	Ulf Oscar Sand 22 May 1938 Bærum, Akershus, Norway
Died	29 December 2014 (aged 76) Bærum, Akershus, Norway
Political party	Labour

He was born in Bærum. He graduated as cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1963. He worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance from 1964, and then in the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1966 to 1971.

From 1971 to 1972, in the first cabinet Bratteli, Sand was appointed state secretary in the Ministry of Pay and Prices and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Administration. He lost his job when the first cabinet Bratteli fell in 1972, but from 1973 to 1977 he returned as state secretary as part of the second cabinet Bratteli.

As an elected politician he was a member of the executive committee of Bærum municipal council from 1967 to 1971.

Sand returned to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions as chief economist from 1977 to 1983. He returned to national politics in 1979, when he was appointed Minister of Finance in the cabinet Nordli. He retained his job when the cabinet Nordli was followed by the first cabinet Brundtland in 1981. However, this cabinet only lasted until October 1981, following the 1981 Norwegian parliamentary election.

Sand continued his career as director of the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund from 1983 to 1986. From 1986 to his retirement in 2003 he was permanent under-secretary of State (departementsråd) in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development.

References

• "Ulf Sand" (in Norwegian). Storting.