Alvhild Hedstein (born 28 September 1966) is a Norwegian environmentalist and politician for the Liberal Party.
In 2001, during the first cabinet Bondevik, Hedstein was appointed a political advisor in the Ministry of Agriculture. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Oslo during the terms 2005–2009 and 2009–2013, and has been involved in local politics in Oslo. [1]
Born in Eidsvoll, she took her education at the Norwegian College of Agriculture, and was deputy chair of the Norwegian Christian Student Association. She has worked in the Ministry of the Environment, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority and the Bellona Foundation. Since 2001 she is the manager of Ecolabelling Norway, a national branch of Nordic Ecolabelling. She was a member of the board of Bellona from 2000 to 2001, and of Norgesgruppen from 2005. [1]
Kristin Clemet is a Norwegian politician for Høyre, Norway's Conservative Party.
Lars Peder Brekk is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was private secretary to the Minister of Fisheries 1985-1986, and himself Minister of Fisheries in 2000. He was elected to parliament in 2005 and served as Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2008 to 2012. He was acting leader of the Centre Party from June to September 2008.
Kari Gjesteby is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She has never been a member of the Norwegian Parliament, but has been State Secretary for three tenures, as well as Minister of Trade and Shipping from February to October 1981 and Minister of Justice and the Police from 1990 to 1992. After her political career she has been a director in the Bank of Norway, director of the National Library of Norway and the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille and, from 2009 to 2013, the first female State Conciliator of Norway.
Helga Pedersen is a Norwegian politician, former Minister, and member of the Storting, who is currently deputy leader for the Norwegian Labour Party. A native of Sør-Varanger, she served between 2003 and 2005 as the County Mayor of the northernmost Finnmark county. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, becoming the youngest member of the Labour-led Red-Green Coalition headed by Jens Stoltenberg.
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Trine Skei Grande is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Norway from 2010 to 2020. She also served as Minister of Education from January to March 2020, and as Minister of Culture and Gender Equality from 2018 to 2020. She was also a member of parliament for Oslo from 2001 to 2021.
Bård Vegar Solhjell is a former Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. He served as Minister of Education from 2007 to 2009, and as Minister of the Environment from 2012 to 2013, both in Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet. Starting in March 2018, he is the Secretary General of WWF Norway.
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