Jarle Aarbakke

Jarle Aarbakke (born 18 November 1942) was the rector at the University of Tromsø from 2002 until 2013, and the mayor of Tromsø municipality from October 2015 to July 2016

Before being elected rector in 2001, Aarbakke served as a professor of pharmacy at the Department of Medical Microbiology. From 2007 to 2009 he was chair of the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR).

In 1997 Aarbakke led a government committee for investigation of alternative and supplementary medicine. Provided by Wikipedia