Kjerstin Askholt (born 7 May 1962) is a Norwegian

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

. She was the governor of Svalbard from 2015 to 2021. Askholt was the deputy director of Bredtveit Prison from 1990 to 1991, deputy director of the

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from 1996 to 1999, and was from 2003, deputy under-secretary of state at the Polar Department of the Ministry of Justice. She was appointed Governor of Svalbard on 1 October 2015.The current Governor
Governor of Svalbard's website, visited 19 May 2020.

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