Ellen Birgitte Pedersen (born 1955) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. Born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

, she took the cand.med. degree in 1979. She has worked in

Øksnes Municipality Øksnes is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located on the northwestern part of the large island of Langøya, which is a part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of ...

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(at the Nordland Hospital Bodø) and

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(at the Nordland Hospital Vesterålen). She was also a lecturer at the

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. She has been a member of the

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and the

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, and chaired her party on both municipal and county level. She has also chaired the former health trust Hålogaland Hospital and been a board member of Nordland Hospital Trust. She joined the Socialist Left Party in 1972, and has chaired the local branch in Øksnes and county branch in Nordland. From June 2008 to October 2009 she served as a State Secretary in the

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, as a part of

Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition government, coalition between the Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party (Norway), Socialist Left Party a ...

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