Knut Brofoss

{{Short description|Norwegian civil servant}}

Knut Brofoss (9 October 1948 – 3 April 2025) was a Norwegian civil servant.

He was born in Oslo as a son of economist and politician Erik Brofoss. Knut Brofoss took the cand.jur. degree, and was hired in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1975. From 1983 he worked in the Ministry of Social Affairs. He was deputy under-secretary of state from 1988 to 1999, and acting permanent under-secretary of state in 1999. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as a prosecutor in the Norwegian National Authority for the Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime. He then became general director of the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research.{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Knut Brofoss|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|language=no|url=http://www.snl.no/Knut_Brofoss|accessdate=13 November 2009}} In 2005 he was appointed as director of the National Insurance Court.{{cite news|title=Offisielt fra statsråd 17. juni 2005|agency=Norwegian News Agency|date=17 June 2005|language=Norwegian}} Trine Fernsjø took over in 2016.{{cite news|url=https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumentarkiv/regjeringen-solberg/aktuelt-regjeringen-solberg/asd/pressemeldinger/2016/trine-fernsjo-ny-leder-for-trygderetten/id2505038/|title=Trine Fernsjø ny leder for Trygderetten|date=17 June 2016|publisher=Government.no|language=no|access-date=14 May 2025}}

He was married to Ingse Stabel.{{cite news|title=Her er oversikten over de 50 mektigste parene i det rødgrønne Norge|last=Ramnefjell|first=Erling|author2=Gjerstad, Tore |author3=Ellingsen |author4= Per |date=13 February 2006|work=Dagbladet|page=8|language=Norwegian}}

Brofoss died on 3 April 2025, at the age of 76.{{Cite news |title=Nekrolog: Knut Brofoss var høyt respektert og faglig sterk |first=Jon |last=Evang |first2=Inger Lill |last2=Søberg |first3=Bjørn Arne |last3=Lervik |first4=Trine |last4=Fernsjø |url=https://www.aftenposten.no/nekrolog/i/lw5Pr7/nekrolog-knut-brofoss-19482025 |url-access=subscription |work=Aftenposten |date=21 April 2025 |access-date=12 May 2025|language=no}}