Geir Barvik

Geir Barvik
Geir Barvik
Director-General of the Directorate of Integration and Diversity
	In office; 2010–2016
Preceded by	Osmund Kaldheim
Succeeded by	Libe Rieber-Mohn
Managing Director of the Norwegian State Housing Bank
	In office; 2001–2010
Preceded by	Lars Wilhelmsen
Succeeded by	Bård Øistensen
Personal details
Born	19 May 1958; Bø, Telemark
Nationality	Norway

Geir Barvik (born 19 May 1958 in Bø, Telemark) is a Norwegian civil servant. He served as Managing Director of the Norwegian State Housing Bank from 2001 to 2010 and as Director-General of the Directorate of Integration and Diversity from 2010 to 2016. From 2016 he is a Director in the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

Career

Barvik worked at the Norwegian State Housing Bank and in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, where he was a Principal Officer from 1991, Assistant Director General from 1992 and Deputy Director General from 1994.

He was appointed as Managing Director of the Norwegian State Housing Bank by the King-in-Council in 2001, and held the position until 2010.[1] In 2010 he was appointed by the King-in-Council as the Director General of the Directorate of Integration and Diversity.[2] In 2016 he was succeeded by Libe Rieber-Mohn.[3]

Background

Barvik grew up in Bø, Telemark, and lives in Asker. He is married and has two children.[4] He was formerly a member of the Socialist Left Party, but quit the party due to its opposition to the EU in the early 1990s.[5]

gollark: Distributing punishment based on that would make things like advertisements for charities horrible infohazards.

gollark: If you want to know about what *you* should do, then it's more reasonable to ask about the morality of actions, not people, because the people way runs into accursed counterfactuals very fast.

gollark: For that the purpose is probably something like "should you be eternally tortured", which I think the answer to is literally always "no".

gollark: First, consider for what purpose you want to know whether it's "evil" or not to have been that person.

gollark: I don't believe in objective evil and I subscribe to the view that asking whether something is "evil" or not is not very useful because it's a very fuzzy word/category.

References

"Geir Barvik ny husbankdirektør" (Press release). Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. 1 June 2001. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
"Geir Barvik utnevnt til ny IMDi-direktør" (Press release). Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
Libe Rieber-Mohn blir ny direktør for IMDi, Government of Norway
Bakkemoen, Edel (13 April 2002). "Høyt under taket hos husbanksjefen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
Dagbladet Magasinet 1 December 2012, section B, part 2, page 26

Civic offices
Preceded by Lars Wilhelmsen	Managing Director of the Norwegian State Housing Bank 2001–2010	Succeeded by Bård Øistensen
Preceded by Osmund Kaldheim	Director General of the Directorate of Integration and Diversity 2010–2016	Succeeded by Libe Rieber-Mohn

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[1] "Geir Barvik ny husbankdirektør" (Press release). Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. 1 June 2001. Retrieved 19 December 2008.

[2] "Geir Barvik utnevnt til ny IMDi-direktør" (Press release). Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. 21 May 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2010.

[3] Libe Rieber-Mohn blir ny direktør for IMDi, Government of Norway

[4] Bakkemoen, Edel (13 April 2002). "Høyt under taket hos husbanksjefen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2008.

[5] Dagbladet Magasinet 1 December 2012, section B, part 2, page 26