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Inge Ryan Inge Ryan ( born 15 August 1956 in Overhalla ) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party . From 2009 to 2017 , he was County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag . Ryan was mayor of Namsskogan from 1991 to 1995 , and was a member of the Parliament of Norway from 2001 to 2009 , the last four years as his partys parliamentary leader . Early and personal life . Ryan was born 15 August 1956 in Overhalla of forester Arvid Ryan and nurse Irene Opdal . He attended Øysletta School from 1963 to 1969 . At the age of eight , he started the association Tiger to establish a ski jump . He attended Overhalla Lower Secondary School from 1969 to 1972 , and was during the period active in orienteering and association football as a goalie . He attended Namdal Upper Secondary School from 1972 to 1975 , where he took general academics . During secondary school , his best subject was history . On 5 November 2005 , Ryan married Bjørg Tørresdal . She was a fellow member of parliament , representing the Christian Democratic Party . Priest and Minister of the Environment Helen Bjørnøy wedded the couple . In June 2009 , Ryan was admitted to Ullevål University Hospital for treatment . His close friend and Minister of Health and Care Services , Bjarne Håkon Hanssen from the Labour Party , phoned director Tove Strand at Ullevål to inquire why Ryan was not admitted to Rikshospitalet and whether he was receiving the necessary treatment . This spurred a public debate about the incident . Professional career . While attending secondary school , Ryan had several small jobs , including for Øyvind Johansen . When 18 , Ryan worked at a fish factory in Sørvær . Ryan worked as a teacher at Skorovatn School from 1975 to 1977 , after which he studied teaching at Levanger College and Alta College , graduating in 1980 . He has also studied history at Bodø College and pedagogy at the University of Trondheim . He then started working as a teacher at Trones School in Namsskogan until 1987 , when he was appointed principal . Among his pedagogical methods were starting a local radio station , run by the students , and establishing the zoo Namsskogan Familiepark , with the pupils as minority shareholders , and established a bakery run by the students . He returned as teacher in 1991 , but chose to apply for the job as principal in Alvdal . He was awarded the job , but was elected mayor before starting the job . Ryan was also a board member of Namsskogan Familiepark from 1987 to 1991 . He worked as mayor from 1991 to 1995 , and from then until 1997 was regional director of the Norwegian Public Employment Service . In 1996 , he applied for the job as chief-of-administration in Tromsø , but failed to get the job . He quit this job in protest against the states unemployment policies , because he had been instructed to depopulate Indre Namdal , because the agency policies required people to be moved if they could not get jobs locally . From 1997 to 2001 , he was the director of Indre Namdal Regional Council . From 2001 to 2009 , Ryan worked as a full-time member of parliament . On 19 December 2008 , Ryan was appointed County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag . He started on 1 November 2009 , succeeding Oddbjørn Nordset , who had been acting for Inger Lise Gjørv since 2008 . Initially , he held the position for six years . Political career . Ryans first political activity started at the age of 15 , when his grandfather Helge Opdal took him to a political meeting , where Ryan listed to the Labour politician Guttorm Hansen . In 1971 , Ryan attended Red Youths summer camp , the youth wing of the Red Electoral Alliance . He was given a code name and started a chapter in Overhalla . At upper secondary school , Ryan became an active promoter of the socialist newspaper Klassekampen . Ryans interest for politics died down afterwards . Municipal and county . Prior to the 1983 municipal election , Odd Einar Dørum , the leader of the Liberal Party asked him to run as a candidate for the municipal council , and Ryan accepted since he did not disagree with anything on the program . He was however not elected . In 1989 , the Socialist Left Party started a chapter in Namsskogan , and Ryan was nominated as top candidate . Following the 1991 election , the party won 26.2% of the popular vote . The party cooperated with the Centre Party , which involved the Socialist Left Party gaining the mayor for the four-year term in exchange for supporting the Centre Partys candidate in the next term . Ryan , who had never met in a single municipal council meeting , was thereby elected mayor . Nationally , the party captured only seven mayors in the election . In the same election , Ryan was also elected member of Nord-Trøndelag County Council . The following year , Ryan was appointed as board member of the county-owned power company Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk , where he sat until 1999 . He was also leader of the Namsskogan chapter of the Socialist Left Party . In the 1995 election , Ryan was re-elected to the municipal council and county council , and subsequently appointed deputy mayor of Namsskogan and the countys executive board . In 1996 , he was appointed to the board of a government committee to grant subsidies to local stores in remote locations . The same year he became a deputy board member of Nord-Trøndelag University College , and from 1999 until 2001 he was a regular member . From 1998 to 2002 , he also sat on the board of Trøndelag R&D Institute . Following the 1999 election , Ryan was re-elected to the municipal and county councils , and was appointed to the countys executive board . From 1999 to 2001 , Ryan sat on the board for Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities ( KS ) . Ryan also sat in the KS-appointed Stand Committee , led by Morten Strand , that suggested to reduce the number of directorate and reduce the influence of the county governors . Parliament and national politics . Prior to the 1993 parliamentary election , Ryan was one of three nominee candidates for the Socialist Left Partys list in Nord-Trøndelag . Ryan was nominated on third place on the list , after Jorunn Hageler and Inge Staldvik . Hageler was elected to parliament , and Ryan was her second deputy during the term 1993 to 1997 . Prior to the 1997 election , Ryan was launched as an alternative top candidate for Nord-Trøndelag . At the nomination meeting , Hageler won 23 against Ryans 13 votes , and Ryan was placed on second place on the list . After the nomination , Hageler stated that she regretted having said that Ryan was less suitable to sit in parliament than she was , because of his down-to-earth appeal and informal dress code . The party failed to win a seat from the county in 1997 . Ryan was a possible candidate to become deputy party leader of his party in 1997 , but was instead appointed as central board member . He became deputy leader in 1999 , a position he held until 2001 . In the 2001 election , Ryan was the partys top candidate in the county , and succeeded in winning a seat . The party had its best election ever , including in Nord-Trøndelag , where it won 13.8% of the votes , up 7.5% compared to 1997 . Ryan became a member of the partys largest parliamentary group ever . During the parliamentary term from 2001 to 2005 , Ryan was a member of the Standing Committee on Business and Industry and the Election Committee . He was a member of the parliamentary delegation to the Nordic Council . He also was a deputy member of the European Committee and the delegation to the United Nations General Assembly . In the 2005 election , Ryan was successful at retaining his seat . Following the Socialist Left Partys entering government as part of Stoltenbergs Second Cabinet , Ryan was appointed the partys parliamentary leader . He was appointed first vice chair of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs , a position he held until 24 November 2007 , when he again sat on the Standing Committee on Business and Industry . For the full term 2005 to 2009 , he was a member of the Election Committee and the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs . He was a delegate to the Nordic Council , and from 2007 a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly . Political policy . Since the 1970s , Namsskogan had experienced a rapid decline in the population , from 1,750 to 1,000 in the early 1990s . Among Ryans political changes as mayor was to encourage people to take their holidays in the winter instead of the summer . He argued that the three main industries in Namsskogan—agriculture , forestry and tourism—all had their peaks during May through October , but that it was difficult to get sufficient work-force during this period because people were on holiday . The municipality offered to anyone who took their three-week summer vacation during the winter . Ryan also introduced a public service office , where residents could be served with all necessary public over-the-counter services at one place . For people living outside the community center , a cooperation was made with local stores where people could send in standardized application there . Some simple applications , such as erecting a simple garage , were approved on the spot at the service office . The Socialist Left Party used Namsskogan during the 1995 election as their prime example for how they wanted to modernize the public sector . Ryans election as party deputy leader in 1999 was largely due to the partys parliamentary support for the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia . Ryan represented the branch of the party that was opposed to the Norwegian participation in the war , and was appointed to supplement the Kristin Halvorsen and Øystein Djupedal , who were both in favor of the bombings . In 2001 , Ryan proposed allowing local stores to function as branches of Vinmonopolet , the state-run liquer stores , to allow liquor and wine retailing in rural areas . During the 2001 election , Ryans main issues were related to regional policy . He wanted to introduce subsidies for local stores in rural areas , and equal price throughout the country for power line component in the electrical prices . Other issues were increased funding for schools , increasing the progressivity of taxation and making a two-tier system for taxes on electricity . After being elected , Ryan worked to establish public service offices , and wanted to force state agencies to participate in these . He also called for a separate Minister of Rural Affairs . Election results . Parliamentary elections . In the 1993 and 1997 , Ryan was third and second candidate on the lists . For the 2001 and 2005 elections , he was the top candidate .