Eldbjørg Løwer (born 14 July 1943) is a
Norwegian politician for the
Liberal Party.
Education
Løwer was trained at the
Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
Career
Løwer was a
ceramist
Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Whil ...
.
Løwer began her career in politics and served as
mayor of
Kongsberg and later leader of Kongsberg Chamber of commerce.
Løwer was Minister of Planning and Coordination and Minister of Local Government and Labour (local government affairs) in 1997, Minister of Labour and Administration 1998-1999, and
Minister of Defence 1999-2000.
Since 2011 she has chaired the
Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee
Parliament's Intelligence Oversight Committee ( no, Stortingets kontrollutvalg for etterretnings-, overvåkings- og sikkerhetstjeneste), commonly known as the EOS Committee ( no, EOS-utvalget) is Norway's body responsible for supervising public int ...
.
See also
*
Minister of Defence (Norway)
References
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1943 births
Living people
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni
Chairs of NRK
Female defence ministers
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
People from Ål
Defence ministers of Norway
Women government ministers of Norway