Jarle Aarbakke

Jarle Aarbakke (born November 18, 1942) was the rector at the University of Tromsø, and is currently the mayor of Tromsø in Northern-Norway.

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.