Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen

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Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen
Minister of Defence
In office 21 September 2012 – 16 October 2013
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Espen Barth Eide
Succeeded by	Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide
In office 17 October 2005 – 20 October 2009
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Kristin Krohn Devold
Succeeded by	Grete Faremo
Minister of Health and Care Services
In office 20 October 2009 – 21 September 2012
Prime Minister	Jens Stoltenberg
Preceded by	Bjarne Håkon Hansen
Succeeded by	Jonas Gahr Støre
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
In office 1 October 2005 – 30 September 2013
Constituency	Hordaland
Chief Commissioner of Bergen
In office 26 June 2000 – 27 October 2003
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Monica Mæland
Mayor of Bergen
In office 25 October 1999 – 26 June 2000
Deputy	Ingmar Ljones
Preceded by	Ingmar Ljones
Succeeded by	Ingmar Ljones
Deputy Mayor of Bergen
In office 1998 – 25 October 1999
Mayor	Ingmar Ljones
Preceded by	Ole-Jørgen Johannessen
Succeeded by	Ingmar Ljones
Personal details
Born	Anne-Grete Hjelle Strøm-Erichsen (1949-10-21) 21 October 1949 (age 71) Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Arve Strøm-Erichsen ​ (m. 1971)​ [1]
Children	2

Anne-Grete Hjelle Strøm-Erichsen (born 21 October 1949 in Bergen) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Defence from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2012 to 2013. She also served as Minister of Health and Care Services from 2009 to 2012. In local politics, she served as the Mayor of Bergen from 1999 to 2000 and its Chief Commissioner from 2000 to 2003.

Education and career outside politics[]

Strøm-Erichsen was educated in EDB engineering at Bergen University College in 1974. She then studied at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in the United States until 1981 and worked with the EDB systems at the University of Bergen until 1984.^[2] She was later senior consultant in Siemens Nixdorf from 1988 to 1991 and BDC AS from 1991 to 1995.^[3]

Political career[]

Local politics[]

Strøm-Erichsen was mayor of Bergen from 1999 to 2000 and chaired its city council from 2000 to 2003.^[4] Being mayor, she was the president of the Organization of World Heritage Cities from 1999 to 2001. She also chaired the county party chapter from 1997 to 1999, and was a member of the Labour Party central committee from 2002 to 2007.^[5]

First term as Minister of Defence[]

She was elected to the Storting from Hordaland in 2005 election. On 17 October 2005, she was appointed Minister of Defence in the Red-Green Coalition government headed by Jens Stoltenberg. Her seat in parliament was taken by Dag Ole Teigen.

Minister of Health and Care Services[]

After the 2009 election, she was appointed Minister of Health and Care Services.

Second term as Minister of Defence[]

Following a cabinet reshuffle on 21 September 2012, she was reappointed as minister of defence succeeding Espen Barth Eide, who had been appointed minister of foreign affairs.^[6]

In the summer of 2013, under her leadership, the Storting decided to introduce gender-neutral conscription in the Norwegian Armed Forces, which was introduced in 2015 under her successor, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide's leadership.^[7]

She did not seek reelection in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election.^[8]

References[]

External links[]

• "Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen" (in Norwegian). Storting.

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