Kjersti Stenseng

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Kjersti Stenseng
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Stenseng at the Labour Party conference in 2017.
Minister of Local Government
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Kjersti Stenseng (born 4 September 1974) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party currently serving as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development since February 2025 and as the party secretary since 2015. [1] She also served as a deputy member of the Storting from Oppland between 2013 and 2017.

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Career

Education

She finished her secondary education at Vinstra Upper Secondary School in 1993. She minored in sociology and modern history at the Nord-Trøndelag University College and Lillehammer University College before studying political science and history at the University of Oslo. She also took teacher's education and worked as a teacher in Kvam and Vinstra from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2010 she worked in the Peer Gynt Festival, the last nine years as director, and from 2010 to 2011 she was the director of the Norwegian Festival of Literature. [2]

Local politics

She served as a municipal council member in Sør-Fron from 2007 to 2011. She became leader in Oppland Labour Party in 2010 and also national board member, and was promoted to central board member in 2011. [2]

Government

She was an acting political adviser in the Ministry of Culture from January to August 2010, then acting political adviser again from June to October 2011. From November to December 2011 she was an acting State Secretary in the same ministry. From 1 January 2012 she was an acting political adviser again, then political adviser from March and State Secretary from May 2012 to 1 October 2013. [3]

Parliament

She was elected as a deputy representative to the Storting, Norway's parliament, from Oppland in 2013. As Rigmor Aasrud from Oppland was a member of the outgoing Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet, Stenseng met as a regular representative during the two weeks before the cabinet change. [1]

Party politics

At the 2015 party conference, she was elected party secretary. She has been re-elected at every convention since (2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023). [4]

Mere weeks before the 2023 party convention, former deputy leader and mayor of Tana Helga Pedersen was open to succeeding Stenseng as party secretary as part of a greater renewal of the party's leadership. This was despite the fact that Stenseng had previously announced that she would seek re-election. [5] On 30 April, Pedersen announced that she wouldn't stand as a candidate to succeed Stenseng, arguing that she didn't have sufficient support within the party. This marked the first time that Stenseng's position had been challenged. [6]

In mid-December 2024, she announced that she wouldn't seek re-election as party secretary at the next party convention in April 2025. [7]

Minister of Local Government

Following the Centre Party's withdrawal from government, she was appointed minister of local government on 4 February 2025. [8]

Personal life

She has two daughters from a previous relationship. [9] She is married to former president of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports Tom Tvedt. [10] [11] [12]

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  1. 1 2 "Stenseng, Kjersti" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Tidligere statssekretær Kjersti Stenseng" (in Norwegian). Government.no . Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Jens Stoltenberg's Second Government". Government.no . Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "Her er Støres nye mannskap" (in Norwegian). NRK. 18 April 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "Ap-sjokk: - Jeg stiller" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. 20 April 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "Helga Pedersen: – Jeg stiller ikke som kandidat til å bli partisekretær" (in Norwegian). NRK Troms og Finnmark. 30 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  7. ↑ Rønning, Mats; Skårdalsmo, Kristian; Pessl-Kleiven, Eirik (15 December 2024). "Endringer i Ap-toppen: Partisekretæren går av" (in Norwegian Bokmål). NRK . Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  8. ↑ Skårdalsmo, Kristian; Rønning, Mats; Tomter, Line; Hjetland, Geir Bjarte; Grasmo, Julie (4 February 2025). "Nye statsråder: Stenseng inn i regjering – Skjæran får toppjobb på Stortinget" (in Norwegian Bokmål). NRK . Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  9. ↑ "Bryllup: Verken Tom eller Kjersti husker det første kysset, men den første samtalen derimot..." (in Norwegian Bokmål). Stavanger Aftenblad. 19 July 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.(subscription required)
  10. ↑ "- Det handler om å være kjærester og støtte hverandre som mennesker" (in Norwegian). Dagbladet. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  11. ↑ "Arbeiderpartiets partisekretær skal gifte seg med Tom Tvedt" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 5 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  12. ↑ "Kjersti Stenseng og Tom Tvedt har giftet seg" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Verdens Gang. 17 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
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