Trine Skei Grande
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Trine Skei Grande | |
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_-_February_2019_(47090437131)_(cropped).jpg) Skei Grande in 2019 | |
| Minister of Education and Integration | |
| In office 24 January 2020 – 13 March 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Jan Tore Sanner |
| Succeeded by | Guri Melby |
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 17 January 2018 – 24 January 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Linda Hofstad Helleland |
| Succeeded by | Abid Raja |
| Leader of the Liberal Party | |
| In office 17 April 2010 – 26 September 2020 | |
| First Deputy | Helge Solum Larsen Ola Elvestuen |
| Second Deputy | Ola Elvestuen Terje Breivik |
| Preceded by | Lars Sponheim |
| Succeeded by | Guri Melby |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
| In office 1 October 2001 – 30 September 2021 | |
| Constituency | Oslo |
| Oslo City Commissioner of Culture and Education | |
| In office 29 November 2000 – 7 November 2001 | |
| Governing Mayor | Erling Lae |
| Preceded by | Bård Folke Fredriksen |
| Succeeded by | Kjell Veivåg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 October 1969 |
| Party | Liberal |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Trine Skei Grande (born 2 October 1969) is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Norway from 2010 to 2020. She also served as Minister of Education from January to March 2020,[1] and as Minister of Culture and Gender Equality from 2018 to 2020. She was also a member of parliament for Oslo from 2001 to 2021.
Grande was born in Overhalla Municipality on 2 October 1969. She studied economics at introductory level at NTNU and later political science and history at introductory level at the University of Oslo. Prior to entering politics full-time she worked as a part-time journalist, a high school teacher and as a lecturer at Nord-Trøndelag University College.[2]
Political career
The current Storting is her fourth consecutive term as a member, after first serving as deputy Member of Parliament from 2001 for Minister Odd Einar Dørum, and became Parliamentary Leader of the Liberal Party from 2001 until 2005. She was elected as Member of Parliament in the 2005 parliamentary election, and then re-elected in the 2009 and 2013 parliamentary elections.
Grande was a member of the Liberal Party central board in 1999–2000, and was deputy leader from 2000 until 2010. Grande was elected MP for Oslo in 2009 parliamentary election, although the Liberal Party suffered a severe blow; she and Borghild Tenden of Akershus were the only Liberal MPs to be elected.
She is a member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and has highlighted the legacy of her predecessor as Liberal Party leader Eva Kolstad.[3]
