Sverre Lodgaard (born 1945) is a Norwegian political scientist and politician for the Labour Party.
He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.polit. degree in 1971. He was director of European Security and Disarmament Studies from 1980 to 1986, of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) from 1987 to 1992, of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research from 1992 to 1996 and of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs from 1997 to 2007. In 2007 he stepped down as director, but continued as a researcher.
In the Labour Party Lodgaard has chaired the international committee.[1]
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| Preceded by Olav F. Knudsen |
Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs 1997–2007 |
Succeeded by Jan Egeland |