What is Finn Lied?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Finn Lied | image = [[File:Finn Lied.jpg|245px]] | caption = Lied in 1970 | office = [[Minister of Trade and Industry (Norway)|Minister of Trade and Industry]] | term_start = 17 March 1971 | term_end = 18 October 1972 | primeminister = [[Trygve Bratteli]] | predecessor = [[Sverre Walter Rostoft]] | successor = [[Ola Skjåk Bræk]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|04|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Fana]], Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|10|10|1916|04|12|df=y}} | death_place = [[Oslo]], Norway | party = [[Norwegian Labour Party|Labour Party]] }}'''Finn Lied''' (12 April 1916 &ndash; 10 October 2014) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] military researcher and politician. He was a member of the [[Norwegian Labour Party|Labour Party]]. He was born in [[Fana]], [[Norway]]. He served as a [[captain (OF-2)|captain]] in the army from 1944 to 1945, and [[civil engineer]]. From 1946 to 1956 he was a researcher at the [[Norwegian Defence Research Establishment]]. He had 41 positions in different government councils, boards and agencies. He served as the [[Minister of Industry (Norway)|Minister of Industry]] in 1971&ndash;1972, in the [[Trygve Bratteli|Bratteli's First Cabinet]]. From 1973 to 1984 he was the chairman of [[Statoil]].<ref>{{cite news|title=NTH-sjef Statoil-formann|last=Skogseth|first=Arne|date=23 March 1984|work=VG|page=3|language=Norwegian}}</ref> From 1971 he was a member of the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]]. He was also a fellow of the [[Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ntva.no/index.php?option=com_club&view=member&id=273%3Alied-finn&Itemid=60|title=Medlemmer: LIED, Finn|publisher=[[Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences]]|language=Norwegian|accessdate=11 May 2013}}</ref> He was appointed a Commander of the [[Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav]] in 1980, and became Honorary Knight Commander of the [[Royal Victorian Order]] in 1982. Lied died in [[Oslo]], Norway, aged 98. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTS