The county governor of

Agder Agder is a counties of Norway, county () and districts of Norway, traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Au ...

county in Norway represents the central government administration in the county. The office of county governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway; the title was (before 1919), then (from 1919 to 2020), and then (since 2021). Agder county (with its current borders) was established on 1 January 2020 after the merger of the old

Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, ) was a county (''fylke'') in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . ...

and

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counties. In anticipation for this merger, the government of Norway merged the offices of County Governor of Aust-Agder and County Governor of Vest-Agder into one office starting on 1 January 2016. The county governor is the government's representative in the county. The governor carries out the resolutions and guidelines of the

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and government. This is done first by the county governor performing administrative tasks on behalf of the ministries. Secondly, the county governor also monitors the activities of the municipalities and is the appeal body for many types of municipal decisions.

Name

From 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2019 the title was . Since 1 January 2020, after the county merger, the title was changed to . Then on 1 January 2021, the title was changed again to the gender-neutral .

List of county governors

Agder county has had the following governors:

References

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County Governor

Name

List of county governors

See also

References