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Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg (; born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. Since 2025, he has been the Minister of Finance in the Støre Cabinet. He has previously been the prime minister of Norway and secretary general of NATO. Born in Oslo as the son of diplomat and politician Thorvald Stoltenberg and politician Karin Stoltenberg (), Stoltenberg attended Oslo Waldorf School and Oslo Cathedral School before graduating with a degree in economics from the University of Oslo in 1987. During his studies, he worked as a journalist, and led Labour's youth wing from 1985 to 1989. Stoltenberg started his career in government as a state secretary in the Ministry of the Environment in 1990 and was elected to the Storting in 1993. He was the Minister of Industry and Energy from 1993 to 1996 and Minister of Finance from 1996 to 1997. He was prime minister from 2000 to 2001, leader of the Labour Party from 2002 to 2014, and was prime minister for a second time from 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Finance (Norway)
The Minister of Finance is a Cabinet of Norway, councilor of state and chief of the Ministry of Finance (Norway), Ministry of Finance. The position is since February 2025 held by Jens Stoltenberg of the Labour Party (Norway) who is a member of Støre's Cabinet. In coalition governments, the leader of the largest junior party is usually made Minister of Finance, and may serve, de jure or de facto, as Deputy to the Prime Minister of Norway, Deputy Prime Minister. List of ministers Key 1st Ministry (finance affairs) (March–November 1814) 5th Ministry (finance affairs) (November 1814–1818) Ministry of Finance, Trade and Customs (1818–1846) Ministry of Finance and Customs (1846–2000) Ministry of Finance (2000–) See also *Norwegian Ministry of Finance Notes References {{Ministers of Norway Lists of government ministers of Norway, Finance 1814 establishments in Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hill-Marta Solberg
Hill-Marta Solberg (born 12 November 1951, in Sortland Municipality) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. During her career, she was a parliamentary representative for Nordland county from 1993-2009. She was the Minister of Health and Social Affairs for three years and then was the County Governor of Nordland county for nearly ten years. She retired on 15 November 2018. Personal life Hill-Marta Solberg was born on 12 November 1951 in Sortland Municipality in Nordland county, Norway to Arne J. Hansen and Borghild Jensen. Education and career Solberg took her Examen artium in 1970. She then went to the Trondheim teacher's school and got her degree in 1974. She began her teaching career in Mo i Rana during the 1975-1976 school year. She then moved to Harstad to teach the next year, and then she moved to Sortland to teach from 1977-1987. From 1983-1987, she served on the municipal council of Sortland Municipality. She resigned from teaching in 1987 to run for mayor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Schulerud
Ingrid Schulerud (born 8 July 1959) is a Norwegian diplomat. She served as Norway's ambassador to Belgium from 2015 to 2019. Personal life Early life Schulerud is the daughter of Mentz Schulerud, an author and radio personality well known for his encyclopedic knowledge of their home city of Oslo. Her aunt—Mentz' sister—was the children's book author Anne-Cath. Vestly. Education Schulerud attended Oslo Cathedral School, where she met Jens when they were both 17 years old. Here, she defeated her future husband in the election for Representative to the National Students’ Union, running for the Socialist Left Party. Family life Schulerud is married to Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, and the former Norwegian Prime Minister. Being the spouse of the Norwegian Prime Minister during two different periods of time, (2000–2001 and 2005–2013), she has chosen a somewhat withdrawn social position. During the first period she did not accompany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age, the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around the year 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håkon Haugli
Håkon Haugli (born 21 May 1969) is a Norwegian politician and business executive. Since 2019 he is the CEO of Innovation Norway. Personal life Haugli was born in Oslo on 21 May 1969, a son of Håvard Haugli and Sigrun Anne Olsen. Career A deputy member of the Storting from 2009 to 2013, Haugli represented the Labour Party and the Oslo District, and replaced prime minister Jens Stoltenberg as representative during this period. His prior work experience includes Gjensidige (insurance) and McKinsey & Co. He has held a number of board positions and holds a law degree from the University of Oslo. From 2014 to 2019, he was the Managing Director of Abelia, the business association for Norwegian knowledge and technology based enterprises. The association is part of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO). In 2019, Haugli was appointed the CEO of Innovation Norway, a governmental instrument for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry. Other activi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truls Wickholm
Truls Aronsen Wickholm (born 15 October 1978) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served as a deputy member of parliament for Oslo between 2005 and 2017 and later served as mayor of Nesodden between 2017 and 2021, when he became state secretary to minister of labour and social inclusion Hadia Tajik, a position he held until March 2022. Political career Parliament He served as a deputy representative to the Storting from Oslo between 2005 and 2017. He deputised for prime minister Jens Stoltenberg between 2005 and 2009, and then for foreign minister and later health minister Jonas Gahr Støre between 2009 and 2013. He deputised for Stoltenberg in October 2013 until the Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet left office. He did so again between June and September 2014 when Stoltenberg became Secretary-General of NATO. During his time in parliament, Wickholm sat on the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications between 2005 and 2009. He then joined the Standing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Bøe Elgsaas
Ragnar Bøe Elgsaas (born 8 June 1971) is a former Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Biography He was the son of manager, Knut Elgsaas and first secretary, Johanne Margrethe Bøe. He finished upper secondary school at Ulsrud in 1990. The next year he was hired as a Labour Party office clerk and was elected as a deputy member of Oslo city council for 1991–1995. He worked as a campaigner for the 1993 Norwegian parliamentary election and in Sosialdemokrater mot EU i Oslo for the 1994 Norwegian referendum. He was leader of the Oslo chapter of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) from 1993 until 1995, when he withdrew after the publishing of the Workers' Youth League affair in ''Verdens Gang''. In 1998, he was convicted of fraud. He remained a central board member of the Workers' Youth League nationwide from 1994 to 1998. In 2000 he finished a cand.oecon. degree at the University of Oslo and made a political comeback as board member of Labour's borough branch in St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inger Lise Husøy
Inger Lise Husøy (born 30 January 1957) is a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. She was born in Grytten Municipality (present-day Rauma Municipality), as a daughter of Gunnar Husøy and Karin Nord. She took her primary and secondary education in Åndalsnes, and also attended Borgund Folk High School and various colleges in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She worked in the newspaper ''Verdens Gang'' from 1980 to 1984, and later as a consultant for Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research from 1986 to 1987 and National Institute for Consumer Research from 1987 to 1991. In between, from 1984 to 1986, she worked as a secretary for the Labour Party in Oslo. She was a deputy member of Oslo city council from 1987 to 1991, and served on the board of the local party chapter from 1988 to 1998. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Oslo during the terms 1989–1993 and 1993–1997. She met in Parliament on a regul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Hornslien
Anders Hornslien (born 6 December 1970 in Oslo) is a Norwegian media personality and politician for the Labour Party. He was the leader of the local chapter of the Workers' Youth League from 1991 to 1993, and served as a member of Oslo city council in the same period. During this time he became a controversial figure following the Workers' Youth League affair, for which he was sentenced to five months in jail. He served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo during the terms 1993–1997 and 1997–2001. During these terms he filled in for Bjørn Tore Godal and Jens Stoltenberg while they were appointed to cabinet positions. No longer active in political positions, he worked as a television and radio presenter in Metropol TV and Kanal 24 respectively. Hornslien is openly gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storting
The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The Unicameralism, unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen Voting systems#Multiple-winner methods, multi-seat constituencies. A member of the Storting is known in Norwegian as a ''stortingsrepresentant'', literally "Storting representative". The assembly is led by a president and, since 2009, five vice presidents: the presidium. The members are allocated to twelve standing committees as well as four procedural committees. Three ombudsmen are directly subordinate to parliament: the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee, Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee and the Office of the Auditor General of Norway, Office of the Auditor General. Parliamentary system, Parliamentarianism was established in 1884, with the Storting operating a form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grete Faremo
Grete Faremo (born 16 June 1955) is a Norwegian politician, lawyer and business leader. From August 2014 to May 2022, she held the post of Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). During her political career, she held high-level positions in the Norwegian Government including Minister of Justice from 1992-1996 and 2011–2013, Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1996, Minister of International Development from 1990-1992 and Minister of Defence from 2009–2011. Family background and professional career Faremo was born in Arendal in 1955 and grew up in Byglandsfjord, Setesdal, southern Norway. She is the daughter of the Norwegian politician Osmund Faremo (1921-1999) and Tora Aamlid (1921). Much of Faremo's early political philosophy was strongly influenced by her father, who was a prisoner of war during the Second World War, after being arrested as part of Adolf Hitler's Nacht und Nebel directive. Faremo attende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finn Kristensen
Finn Kristensen (born 24 July, 1936) is a Norwegian electrician, trade unionist, and politician affiliated with the Labour Party. He served as Minister of Industry in 1981, from 1986 to1988, and from 1992 to 1993. Additionally, he was the Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1990 to 1992. Kristensen represented Telemark as a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 1985. Born in Brevik, he was the son of welder Bjarne Kornelius Kristensen (1912–1946) and cleaner Jenny Therese Eikefjord (1914–1989). kristensen began his basic training as an electrician in 1950, starting an apprenticeship at Dalen Portland Cementfabrikk. After completing his four-year apprenticeship, he spent a year studying strong current at the Oslo School of Elementary Technics. He then worked at sea for a year before returning to Dalen Portland, where he worked from 1958 to 1962. Political career He started a political career in the municipal councils of Eidanger and Porsgrunn from 1959 to 1971. In 1962 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
