Eirik Lae Solberg | |
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Governing Mayor of Oslo | |
Assumed office 25 October 2023 | |
Deputy | Hallstein Bjercke |
Mayor | Anne Lindboe |
Preceded by | Raymond Johansen |
Oslo City Commissioner for Finance | |
In office 4 April 2014 –21 October 2015 | |
Governing Mayor | Stian Berger Røsland |
Preceded by | Torger Ødegaard |
Succeeded by | Robert Steen |
State Secretary for the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries | |
In office 16 October 2013 –4 April 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
Minister | Monica Mæland |
State Secretary for the Ministry of Modernisation | |
In office 8 March 2004 –17 October 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Kjell Magne Bondevik |
Minister | Morten Meyer |
Deputy Member of the Storting | |
Assumed office 1 October 2021 | |
Member | Nikolai Astrup (2021) |
Constituency | Oslo |
In office 1 October 1993 –30 September 1997 | |
Constituency | Buskerud |
Personal details | |
Born | Drammen,Buskerud,Norway | 3 April 1971
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Hanna Rommerud |
Children | 2 |
Eirik Lae Solberg (born 3 April 1971) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He has served as the governing mayor of Oslo since 2023 and was previously the Oslo City Commissioner for Finance from 2014 to 2015. Lae Solberg has also been a deputy member of parliament for Oslo since 2021,having previously done so between 1993 and 1997 for Buskerud.
Solberg holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a master's degree in European history and politics from the University of Cambridge.
Solberg was elected to the Oslo City Council in 2007,and led the committee on finance and the Conservative group from 2009 to 2013.
In 2014,he was appointed city commissioner for finance,a post he held until the Conservative coalition lost the 2015 local elections. [1]
Lae Solberg was elected deputy leader of the Oslo Conservative Party in 2018 with Heidi Nordby Lunde as leader,and was re-elected in 2020. [2] [3]
He was the Oslo Conservative Party's candidate for Governing Mayor in the 2019 local elections. He lost the election to incumbent Raymond Johansen,and resigned as the Conservatives' group leader. He did however retain his council seat. [4]
On 1 July 2022,he was again chosen as the Oslo Conservatives' candidate for Governing Mayor for the 2023 local elections. [5] The Conservative block won a majority in the following election,and the Conservatives initially sought to form a new city government with the Liberal Party,Christian Democrats and the Progress Party,but these negotiations collapsed and the Conservatives then sought to form a minority government with only the Liberal Party. [6] The Progress Party had also ruled out a cooperation agreement with a new city government,citing they would not support a government they weren't a part of. However,they later backtracked and agreed to negotiate a cooperation agreement with the Conservatives and Liberals. [7] The parties presented their platform on 24 October. [8]
Lae Solberg and his city government succeeded the Johansen government on 25 October 2023. [9]
Weeks after assuming office,he called on the national government to assist the municipality with police staffing and combating violence and criminal gangs. [10]
With strong blizzards covering large parts of Eastern Norway in January 2024,Lae Solberg advised the public to work from home and not utilise vehicles more than necessary. While several counties in region had closed their schools,he stated he would restrain from doing so in Oslo,citing their importance and a high threshold to do so. [11]
He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Buskerud from 1993 to 1997. He was re-elected as a deputy representative in the 2021 election,this time for Oslo. He met as permanent representative for Nikolai Astrup from 1 to 14 October 2021 at the end of the Solberg Cabinet's tenure.
During the second cabinet Bondevik,Solberg was political advisor in the Ministry of Trade and Industry from 2001 to March 2004,and State Secretary in the Ministry of Work Affairs and Administration (renamed Ministry of Modernization in June 2004) from March 2004 to 2005. In the elections that year,the second cabinet Bondevik fell,thus Solberg lost his position. He was appointed state secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries in 2013 and held the post until 2014.
In 2020,Lae Solberg was hired to work for Deloitte as a strategic consultant for the public sector. [12]
Lae Solberg is married to Hanna Rommerud,with whom he has a son and a daughter. [13]
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