Øystein Mæland
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| Born |
26 March 1960 Rjukan, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Education | Cand.med. |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist, Politician |
| Known for | Director of the National Police Directorate Director of Akershus University Hospital |
| Spouse(s) | Rolf Aspestrand |
| Children | 2 |
Øystein Mæland (born 26 March 1960) is a Norwegian psychiatrist, civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. In 2011, Mæland was appointed director of the National Police Directorate, a position he retained until August 2012 when he resigned in the wake of the Gjørv Report. He has since 2014 been director of Akershus University Hospital.
Mæland was born in Rjukan in Telemark county in 1960 to parents Einar and Bjørg Mæland, but grew up in the neighborhood of Hoff in the borough of Ullern in Oslo. His father was a plant foreman at Ringnes brewery, his mother attended to the office of the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees. Both of his parents were active in the Workers' Youth League and Mæland states that "political debate around the dinner-table" became part of his upbringing. He attended medical school at the University of Oslo and took the cand.med. degree in 1986.
After completing his mandatory residency, he was between 1989 and 1990 employed as the prison doctor at Ullersmo Prison. He worked as a physician from 1989 to 1994 and 1997 to 2000, and was chief physician at Aker University Hospital before becoming head of the psychiatric division at Ullevål University Hospital between 2004 and 2009.
Mæland led the Oslo chapter of the Workers' Youth League from 1979 to 1982, and was a central board member from 1983 to 1989. During this period he met and made friends with a number of youth politicians, among them were future prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, future bankier and CEO of Norway's largest bank Rune Bjerke, as well as future ministers Hanne Harlem, Turid Birkeland and Espen Barth Eide. He was a member of Oslo city council from 1983 to 1986. During Brundtland's Second Cabinet, he was a personal secretary both in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1988-89) and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (1988).
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