Jens Stoltenberg
34th Prime Minister of Norway, subsequently 13th Secretary-General of NATO / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jens Stoltenberg (listen (help·info); born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the Labour Party. On 28 March 2014, he was appointed by NATO's North Atlantic Council as Secretary General of NATO and chairman of the North Atlantic Council, in succession to Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He has held the position since 1 October 2014.[1]
Jens Stoltenberg | |
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13th Secretary General of NATO | |
Assumed office 1 October 2014 | |
Preceded by | Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
27th Prime Minister of Norway | |
In office 17 October 2005 – 16 October 2013 | |
Monarch | Harald V |
Preceded by | Kjell Magne Bondevik |
Succeeded by | Erna Solberg |
In office 3 March 2000 – 19 October 2001 | |
Monarch | Harald V |
Preceded by | Kjell Magne Bondevik |
Succeeded by | Kjell Magne Bondevik |
Leader of the Labour Party | |
Assumed office 6 April 2002 | |
Preceded by | Thorbjørn Jagland |
Minister of Finance | |
In office 25 October 1996 – 17 October 1997 | |
Prime Minister | Thorbjørn Jagland |
Preceded by | Sigbjørn Johnsen |
Succeeded by | Gudmund Restad |
Minister of Industry and Energy | |
In office 7 October 1993 – 24 October 1996 | |
Prime Minister | Gro Harlem Brundtland |
Preceded by | Finn Kristensen |
Succeeded by | Grete Faremo |
Leader of Workers' Youth League | |
In office 1985–1989 | |
Preceded by | Egil Knudsen |
Succeeded by | Turid Birkeland |
Personal details | |
Born | (1959-03-16) 16 March 1959 (age 65) Oslo, Norway |
Political party | Labour Party |
Spouse(s) | Ingrid Schulerud |
Children | Axel Anne Catharina |
Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Profession | Economist |
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Stoltenberg has been a member of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate.[2][3] Stoltenberg was born in Oslo, and is a member of the Stoltenberg political family. He is married to Ingrid Schulerud and they have two children together. He is an agnostic.[4]
During the 2011 Norway attacks, the building where the prime minister's office then was - was bombed; Stoltenberg was then at the prime minister's residence (or the building which becomes the prime mininster's home, until he no longer is a prime minister).[5]
Stoltenberg's father, Thorvald (1931–2018), was the Foreign Minister in the Brundtland government twice.
On February 4th, 2022 he was named as the incoming governor of Norges Bank.[6] However, after a NATO summit in March 2022 concerning the war in Ukraine, Stoltenberg accepted a renewed term of one year to continue as NATO secretary-general and thereby resigned as incoming central bank governor. Acting Governor Ida Wolden Bache was instead given the term that Stoltenberg was meant to take on.[7]