Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen

Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen (born 23 April 1981) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was leader of the party's youth wing, Young Liberals of Norway, from 2003 to 2007.

Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen
Leader of the Young Liberals of Norway
In office
2003–2007
Preceded byMonica Tjelmeland
Succeeded byAnne Solsvik
Personal details
Born (1981-04-23) 23 April 1981
Political partyLiberal

He served as deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland during the term 2005–2009.

Background

Michelsen hails from Austevoll municipality in Hordaland on the south-western coast of Norway. He has studied comparative politics at the University of Bergen. For one year he worked as a volunteer for the Strømme Foundation in Uganda. He has served his civilian service for Bergen Turlag, a member organization of the Norwegian Trekking Association.

Political career

Between 2002-2003 Michelsen was the international secretary for the Young Liberals. In 2006 he was a youth delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. He has previously been a candidate for the Storting, the last time in 2009 when he was second candidate, following Lars Sponheim.

As leader of Young Liberals of Norway Michelsen supported the entry of Norway into the European Union, although the parent party did not.[1] As of 2005, Michelsen worked towards modernising the Young Liberals by introducing blogging, house-visiting and telephone-calling to get a more direct contact with the politicians. These methods are not yet considered normal for political parties in Norway.

As of February 2010 he is also the leader of the cross political campaign Stopp Datalagringsdirektivet (fighting to reject EU's Data Retention Directive) and works for the Norwegian Data Inspectorate.

Michelsen was elected to the board of the Norwegian branch of the World Federalist Movement (Norwegian: Én Verden) in 2010.[2]

gollark: Oh, and also stuff like this (https://archive.is/P6mcL) - there seem to be companies looking at using your information for credit scores and stuff.
gollark: But that is... absolutely not the case.
gollark: I mean, yes, if you already trust everyone to act sensibly and without doing bad stuff, then privacy doesn't matter for those reasons.
gollark: Oh, and as an extension to the third thing, if you already have some sort of vast surveillance apparatus, even if you trust the government of *now*, a worse government could come along and use it later for... totalitarian things.
gollark: For example:- the average person probably does *some* sort of illegal/shameful/bad/whatever stuff, and if some organization has information on that it can use it against people it wants to discredit (basically, information leads to power, so information asymmetry leads to power asymmetry). This can happen if you decide to be an activist or something much later, even- having lots of data on you means you can be manipulated more easily (see, partly, targeted advertising, except that actually seems to mostly be poorly targeted)- having a government be more effective at detecting minor crimes (which reduced privacy could allow for) might *not* actually be a good thing, as some crimes (drug use, I guess?) are kind of stupid and at least somewhat tolerable because they *can't* be entirely enforced practically

References
  1. Ueland, Margunn (14 April 2007). "Landsmøtet: EU-nei står fortsatt sterkest i Venstre" [National Convention: EU-no still standing the strongest in Venstre]. Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  2. "Styret" [The board] (in Norwegian). Én Verden. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
Preceded by
Monica Tjelmeland		 Leader of the Young Liberals of Norway
2003–2007		 Succeeded by
Anne Solsvik
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