Siv Nordrum

Siv Nordrum
Born(1958-10-07)7 October 1958
Drøbak, Norway
Died24 April 2021 (aged 62)
Occupation(s)Journalist, communications director, State Secretary
SpouseChristian Syse

Siv Nordrum (7 October 1958 – 24 April 2021) was a Norwegian journalist, communications director and politician.

Born in Drøbak, Nordrum worked as journalist from 1977, and was assigned with NRK radio and television in the 1980s and 1990s.[1] At NRK she started working for the radio's main news programme Dagsnytt in 1984, and was a foreign correspondent for NRK in Asia 1989-1993.[2]

From 2001 to 2005 she served as State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister,[3] working with Kjell Magne Bondevik.[1]

In 2006 she was appointed communications director at the University of Oslo, in 2012 she assumed a similar position for Statistics Norway, and from 2015 she was head of communications at the Storting.[1]

Nordrum was married to Christian Syse, Norwegian ambassador to Sweden in Stockholm 2017-2021.[1][2]

She died in April 2021 after a brief illness.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Siv Nordrum". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Tjoflot, Eirin (27 April 2021). "Siv Nordrum er død". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Biografier. Siv Nordrum". nsd.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 April 2021.