Åge Danielsen

{{Short description|Norwegian civil servant}}

Åge Danielsen (born 22 June 1942) is a Norwegian civil servant.

He was born in Narvik, and holds the cand.oecon. degree in economics. He has been chief administrative officer for Nordland County Municipality from 1980 to 1989, then permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Defence from 1989 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he was the director of Statskonsult.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Åge Danielsen|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/%C3%85ge_Danielsen|language=no|access-date=16 February 2011}} He left in 1997 to become director of Rikshospitalet, and Tore Lorentzen served as acting director from February until Jon Blaalid was hired as new director in the summer.{{cite news|title=Vanskelig å finne toppsjef til Statskonsult|date=21 April 1997|work=Aftenposten|language=no|page=24}}{{cite news|title= Jon Blaalid ny direktør for Statskonsult|date=30 May 1997|agency=Norwegian News Agency|language=no}} Danielsen was director of Rikshospitalet from 1997 to 2008, when he was fired.

He resides at Jar."60 år" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten 22 June 2002, p. 23