Paul Thyness

Paul Thyness was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.
In 1955 he graduated with the cand.philol. degree and majoring in political science at the University of Oslo. He was a member of the board of Norwegian Institute of International Affairs from 1972 to 1977 and from 1988 to 1992. He authored a number of books.
In 1963, during the short-lived Lyng's Cabinet, he was appointed State [Secretary (Norway)|State Secretary] in the Office of the Prime Minister. He was elected to the Storting from Oslo in 1965, and was re-elected on three occasions. He was a co-founder of Friends of Israel in the [Parliament of Norway] in 1974, and chairman of the caucus from 1977 to 1980.
Paul Thyness was Assistant Administrator of the United Nations [Development Programme] and head of the Bureau for Special Activities of the UNDP in New York from 1980 to 1988.