secretary general of the Nordic Council from 1973 to 1977, and editor-in-chief of Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende (renamed Dagens Næringsliv in 1987) from 1977 to 1980. In 1980 he was appointed director of the newly created Norwegian Data Inspectorate. He left in 1989 to become Data Protection Commissioner for the Council of Europe, a position he held until his retirement in 1995. His brother Martin Fredrik Seip was a noted physician and professor of medicine. References 1919 births 2004 deaths Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Liberal People's Party (Norway, 1972) politicians Members of the Storting Ministers of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway Politicians from Oslo Bærum politicians Norwegian newspaper editors University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian writers Directors of government agencies of Norway Helge 20th-century Norwegian politicians People from Surnadal