Siv Nordrum | |
Birth Date: | 7 October 1958 |
Birth Place: | Drøbak, Norway |
Death Date: | 24 April 2021 (aged 62) |
Occupation: | Journalist, communications director, State Secretary |
Spouse: | Christian 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.