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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Erna Solberg
- Preceded by
- Sigbjørn Johnsen
- Succeeded by
- Jan Tore Sanner
- First deputy
- Per Sandberg , Sylvi Listhaug
- Second deputy
- Per Arne Olsen , Ketil Solvik-Olsen , Terje Søviknes
- Leader
- Carl I. Hagen
- Deputy
- Mazyar Keshvari
- Constituency
- Oslo
- Born
- ( 1969-06-01 ) 1 June 1969 (age 57) , Oslo , Norway
- Party
- Progress
- Alma mater
- Norwegian School of, Economics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Siv
- Family name
- Jensen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Oslo
- Occupation
- freelancer
- Educated at
- Norwegian School of Economics
- Employer
- Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue
- Political party
- Progress Party
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Eye colour
- blue
- Hair colour
- blond hair
- Image
- Siv Jensen (190936).jpg
- Work location
- Oslo
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- Commons category
- Siv Jensen
- date of birth
- 1969-06-01
- name in native language
- Siv Jensen
- social media followers
- 61529
- relative
- Betzy Kjelsberg
- P10632
- Siv Jensen
- affiliation string
- Ministry of Finance of Norway
- member of
- Progress Party's Youth
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Encyclopedic overview
Siv Jensen (born 1 June 1969) is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2021. She also held the position as Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2020 in the Solberg Cabinet. She was also a member of the Norwegian parliament from Oslo from 1997 to 2021.
Born and raised in Oslo, Jensen graduated with a degree in business studies from the Norwegian School of Economics. She was first elected to parliament in the 1997 parliamentary election, and has later been re-elected for four consecutive terms. She chaired the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs from 2001 to 2005, and in 2006 succeeded long-time chairman Carl I. Hagen as leader of the Progress Party.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siv Jensen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.