Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen

Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen (2017)

Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen (born October 3, 1959 in Vardø ) is a Norwegian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Ap). He was Minister of Fisheries from 1996 to 1997 , Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2001 and Minister in the State Chancellery from 2009 to 2013.

Political career

From 1980 to 1985 Schjøtt-Pedersen was a member of the board of the youth organization Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking (AUF) in the province of Finnmark . From 1985 to 1989 he sat on the board of the organization at the state level.

Schjøtt-Pedersen first moved into the Norwegian parliament, the Storting , in 1985 . There he represented Finnmark continuously until 2009. During his time in parliament, he was chairman of the finance committee from 1993 to 1996 and from 2005 to 2009. Between 1990 and 1996, 1997 and 2000 as well as between 2001 and 2006 he was a member of the parliamentary committee of his party, from 2005 as deputy parliamentary group chairman.

From October 25, 1996 to October 17, 1997 he was Minister of Fisheries in the cabinet of Thorbjørn Jagland and from 2000 to 2001 Finance Minister in the cabinet of Jens Stoltenberg . Between December 2006 and October 2009 he was State Secretary in the State Chancellery. On October 20, 2009, he was reappointed to the government as Minister in the State Chancellery. He held this office until the end of the Jens Stoltenberg II government on October 16, 2013.

Since 2015 he has been the CEO of the employers' association Norsk olje og gass , which advocates the interests of the Norwegian oil industry. In January 2020 it was announced that he would be leaving this post.

Web links

• Stortinget.no - biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ End of administration director slutter. Retrieved January 3, 2020 (Norwegian).