Ivar Hippe
| Ivar Hippe | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ivar Hippe 19 March 1953 Oslo, Norway |
| Education | University of Oslo |
| Occupation |
Consultant Journalist |
| Known for | editor-in-chief of Økonomisk Rapport |
Ivar Hippe (born 19 March 1953) is a Norwegian political consultant, former journalist and presenter. He received national media attention in 1982 when he was expelled from Argentina by the government. On his return to Norway he began working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). In 1999 he became editor-in-chief of the Norwegian financial journal Økonomisk Rapport.
In 2003 he wrote the book Mektig og avmektig: Tore Tønne, media og maktspillet bak kulissene, which followed Tore Tønne's last days before his suicide. The book received good reviews and, after the book's release, Hippe became Gerd-Liv Valla's consultant. He is the older brother of Jon Hippe, the current leader of the Fafo Foundation. Hippe is currently working for the public relations (PR) company Agendum.
Hippe was born in Oslo and studied at the University of Oslo where he earned the academic degree candidatus rerum politicarum. By the late 1970s Hippe had joined the Latin American Group in Oslo and became one of its leading members. The organisation had around 80 members and had collaborated with Amnesty International on projects involving Latin America. Hippe later landed a job as a journalist for the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet and became the paper's correspondent in Argentina. Hippe and Frode Holst, a journalist from Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang, were arrested and expelled from Argentina in 1982 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who claimed that they were spies working for the British government. Holst was put on a plane to Brazil and Hippe left for Santiago, Chile. In a press conference Argentina's Minister of Interior Bernardo Menendez claimed that the journalists were "compromising national security". In 1984 he sent a job application to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) to become their correspondent in Latin America. When he moved back to Norway he worked for NRKArbeiderbladet and Fafo. Until 1999 Hippe worked in the economic news sector at NRK.
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