Willy Haugli


Willy Haugli was a Norwegian jurist, university director and police chief.

Biography

Haugli was born in Tromsø, Norway. He was the son of Ivar Stefanussen Haugli and Jenny Løvberg. He graduated from the Norwegian Police University College in 1950. He attended the National Defense College from 1967–68.
In 1969, Haugli was appointed university director of the newly established University of Tromsø. He was university director from 1969 to 1978.
In 1985 he was appointed district law judge in Tromsø and that same year became Chief of police in Oslo, a position which he held from 1985 until 1994. In retirement, he returned to Tromsø where for some years he served as extraordinary judge in the Hålogaland Court of Appeal.