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Grete Faremo is the executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services....
Grete Faremo
Norwegian jurist and politician
Grete Faremo (born 16 June 1955) is a Norwegian politician, lawyer and business leader.
From August 2014 to May 2022, she held the post of Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
Faremo began public service in and has held various senior-level positions for the government of Norway, including Minister of Defence, Minister of Oil and.
During her political career, she held high-level positions in the Norwegian Government including Minister of Justice from 1992-1996 and 2011–2013, Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1996, Minister of International Development from 1990-1992 and Minister of Defence from 2009–2011.
Family background and professional career
Faremo was born in Arendal in 1955 and grew up in Byglandsfjord,[1]Setesdal, southern Norway. She is the daughter of the Norwegian politician Osmund Faremo (1921-1999) and Tora Aamlid (1921).
Much of Faremo's early political philosophy was strongly influenced by her father, who was a prisoner of war during the Second World War, after being arrested as part of