Dag Terje Andersen
Politician
1957 –
Who is Dag Terje Andersen?
Dag Terje Andersen is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. In addition to professional politics he has been working at a steel mill and as a lumberjack, something that has given him a reputation for representing the average guy in politics.
He was elected into the Norwegian parliament as a representative from Vestfold in 1997, and he was re-elected in the 2005, 2009 and 2013 elections.
Andersen was the Mayor of Lardal from 1987 to 1992. He was at first a political advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before he became Secretary of State at the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1992. He was a party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1992 until 1996.
In 1996 he became Minister of Agriculture, remaining in that post for slightly less than a year. Andersen later became Minister of Trade and Industry on 29 September 2006, when Odd Eriksen resigned.
From 2009 to 2013, Andersen served as President of the Storting.
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