Executive officer, later higher executive officer, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

1974

Junior executive officer, Consumer Council

1973

Cand.jur. degree

Chairman of The Standing Committee on Defence

2005-

Member of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs

1989-2001

Deputy chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs and of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs

1986-1989

Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs and of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs

1985-1986

Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs and of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs

1984-1985

Member of the Standing Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs and of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs

1981-1984

Member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and the Environment

Vice President NATO Parliamentary Assembly

1994-2001

Deputy head of the EEA Consultative Committee

1994-2001

Alternate member of the Delegation to the Nordic Council

1993-2001

First deputy head of the Delegation for Relations with the European Parliament

1989-2001

Head of the Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

1991-1993

Deputy head of the Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

1984-1989

Member of the Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

1984-1985

Member of the Delegation to the Nordic Council

1984-1985

Alternate member of the Delegation to EFTA and EEA Parliamentary Committees

Chairman of the Conservative parliamentary group

1994

Member of the Conservative parliamentary group

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Mayor of Oppegård municipality

1971-1975

Member of the Oppegård municipal executive board

1967-1971,
1981-1983

Member of the Oppegård municipal council

Board member, the Norwegian Opera

1982-1984

Member of municipal neighbourhood administration committion

1978-1981

Deputy member of the Norwegian State Housing Bank’s executive board

Deputy chairman of the International Democratic Union (IDU)

1994-2004

Party leader (Chairman) of the Conservative Party

1976-

Member of Conservative Party central executive committee

1971-1973

Chairman of the national association of Young Conservatives

Board member, the Norwegian Atlantic Committee