Jan-Erik Larsen

Jan-Erik Larsen is Senior Adviser and head of governmental and public affairs at Fipra Norway and is  one of Norway’s most experienced advisers in this area. Jan-Erik has served variously as Secretary of State in the Office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s first and second governments, as press spokesman in the Office of the Prime Minster, as well as Special Adviser to the Labour Party's parliamentary group. Jan-Erik has also been corporate editor for one of Norway’s largest media group, A-pressen, editor-in-chief and managing director of the leading local newspaper Tidens Krav in Kristiansund and Telemarksavisa, TA, in Telemark. Jan-Erik speaks English and Spanish as well as his native Norwegian. Jan-Erik was born in 1963 and currently lives in Kristiansund on the west-cost of Norway. Jan-Erik is married with three children and is also a surprisingly young and proud grandfather.