Curriculum Vitae

Born: December 13, 1911, in Skedsmo, Norway
Education
1930	Examen artium (secondary school)
1933	Cand. oecon. (undergraduate degree) in Political Economy, University of Oslo
1946	Dr.phil., University of Oslo
Positions and appointments
1933 - 38	Research Assistant, Institute of Economics, University of Oslo
1938 - 39	Lecturer in Statistics, University of Aarhus
1940 - 42	Rockefeller Fellow
1942 - 44	Statistician, Nortraship, New York
1945	Commercial Attache, Norwegian Embassy, Washington, DC
1946 - 47	Researcher, Cowles Commission, University of Chicago
1947 - 48	Chief of Section, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of Finance, Oslo
1948 - 79	Professor of Economics, University of Oslo
Honors and international affiliations
1944	Fellow of the Econometric Society
1946	Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1950	Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences
1954 - 58, 1961 - 63, 1966 - 70	Member of the Council of the Econometric Society
1957	President of the Econometric Society
1975	Honorary Member of the American Economic Association
1979	Member of the Danish Academy of Sciences
1979	Fridtjof Nansen Award for Outstanding Research

From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1989, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1990

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