Sivertsen to become Norway’s new fisheries minister
Norway’s new fisheries minister is to be the Conservative politician Geir-Inge Sivertsen, it has been reported in the Norwegian press.
Sivertsen, 54, is state secretary (vice minister) to trade and industry minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.
He is county leader in Troms and Finnmark Conservatives and sits of the Conservative Party’s central board.
Sivertsen served as mayor of Lenvik from 2011 to 2019.
Engineer
He comes from Finnsnes, and graduated as engineer from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He was elected deputy member of Norway’s Parliament, the Storting, for 2005–2009 and 2017–2021.
Sivertsen will replace Harald Tom Nesvik, who stepped down when the Progress Party he belongs to withdrew from Norway’s coalition government following a row over the repatriation of a suspected Islamic State member and her two children.
