Peter Skovholt Gitmark (born 15 April 1977, in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, f ...

) is a

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politician representing the

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. He is currently a representative of

Vest-Agder Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. I ...

in the

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, first elected in 2005. He was elected a reserve candidate in the previous period, but took

Ansgar Gabrielsen Ansgar Gabrielsen (born 21 May 1955 in Mandal) is a Norwegian consultant and former politician for the Conservative Party. Early life and local politics He was born in Mandal as a son of Terje Gabrielsen and Astrid Olsen. He is an insurance agen ...

's place when Gabrielsen was a cabinet minister. Gitmark is a former Chairman of the

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(2007–2009).

Education and professional life

He has a study qualification from

Kristiansand Cathedral School Kristiansand Cathedral School (''Kristiansand katedralskole Gimle''), known in Latin as ''Schola Christiansandensis'', is a high school in Kristiansand, Agder, Norway. It is the oldest high school on the southern coast of Norway, having been fo ...

from 1997 and a degree in

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from the

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from 2003. After 12 years as a parliamentary representative, he was associated partner of Amrop AS between 2013 and 2014, which runs business consulting and management recruitment. From 2014 he runs communications consulting with his own company and as senior advisor in the department for public and public relations in

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AS. From 2013, Gitmark is also chairman of the deepwater technology company Seabed Separation AS in

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Storting committees

*2005–2009 member of the Finance committee. *2005–2009 member of the Municipality committee.

References

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* 1977 births Living people Politicians from Kristiansand Vest-Agder politicians Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting International Young Democrat Union chairs 21st-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1970s-stub