Ahmad Ghanizadeh

After graduating from Law school in 1997, Ghanizadeh was employed as deputy director at the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, then under Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad. First as a consultant, and later as deputy director.^[4]

From 1 January 2005 he was appointed as head of the new Section for Integration and Diversity after his previous department was merged into the newly established Ministry of Labour, he was then put in charge of managing the Norwegian government's immigrant absorption policy.^[5] He subsequently switched to the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. On 23 March 2012 he was promoted to the position of State Secretary, which was second only to the minister Inga Marte Thorkildsen. He held this position until 16 October 2013.^{[citation needed]}

After relocating to Norway, Ghanizadeh settled in Ringerike, and later to Sundvollen in Hole municipality, outside Oslo. He currently resides there, with his wife Grethe, and four children.^[5]