Olav Akselsen

Olav Akselsen (2009)

Olav Akselsen (born August 28, 1965 in Stord ) is a Norwegian politician of the Arbeiderpartiet (Ap). From 1989 to 2009 he was a member of parliament in Storting and from March 2000 to October 2001 he was his country's oil and energy minister .

Life

After graduating from secondary school in 1984, Akselsen studied at the University of Bergen . From 1983 to 1989 he sat in the local parliament of Stord .

In the general election in 1989 Akselsen took first in the Norwegian National Parliament Storting one. There he represented the constituency of Hordaland and he was initially a member of the judiciary committee. He chaired the committee from April to September 1993 and became its secretary after the 1993 election . Following the 1997 election in Storting , he joined the Energy and Environment Committee, which he took over as chairman in February 2000.

Shortly afterwards, on March 17, 2000, Akselsen was appointed Minister of Oil and Energy in the Stoltenberg I government. He kept the post until the departure of the government on October 19, 2001. He then returned to Storting, where he took over the chairmanship of the economic committee. In the legislative period following the parliamentary elections in 2005 , he took over the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee. During his time in parliament, he was a member of the parliamentary committee of the Arbeiderpartiet group from 2001 to 2009. From December 2006 he served as deputy group chairman. In the 2009 election , Akselsen did not run again.

In 2009 he became head of the Sjøfartsdirektoratet maritime authority .

Web links

Commons : Olav Akselsen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Olav Akselsen at the Storting (Norwegian, English )
• Olav Akselsen in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Erik Weiby: Siste dag på Stortinget. In: nrk.no. June 19, 2009, Retrieved August 9, 2019 (Norwegian). 
2. ↑ Espen Løvvik, Marte Sandvold Nygaard: Olav Akselsen sykemeldt Grunnet alvorlig sykdom. In: Haugesunds Avis. February 11, 2019, accessed August 12, 2020 (Norwegian).