Geir-Inge Sivertsen

Geir-Inge Sivertsen
Mayor of Senja Municipality
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 October 2023
DeputyMarit Stubberud Hanssen
Preceded byTom-Rune Eliseussen
Minister of Fisheries and Seafood
In office
24 January 2020 – 2 March 2020
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
Preceded byHarald T. Nesvik
Succeeded byOdd Emil Ingebrigtsen
State Secretary for the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries
In office
4 November 2019 – 24 January 2020
Prime MinisterErna Solberg
MinisterTorbjørn Røe Isaksen
Mayor of Lenvik Municipality
In office
2011–2019
Preceded byMartin Ness
Succeeded byNone (municipality merged with Senja Municipality)
Personal details
Born (1965-08-29) 29 August 1965 (age 59)
NationalityNorwegian
Political partyConservative
Alma materNorwegian Institute of Technology
OccupationPolitician
Engineer

Geir-Inge Sivertsen (born 29 August 1965) is a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Conservative Party.[1] He is currently the mayor of Senja since 2023. He served as minister of fisheries from January to March 2020, and previously served as mayor of Lenvik from 2011 to 2019.

Personal life and education

Sivertsen hails from Finnsnes, and graduated as engineer from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.[2]

Political career

Local politics

Sivertsen served as mayor of Lenvik Municipality from 2011 until its dissolution in 2019.[2]

He was the mayoral candidate for the Conservative Party in Senja Municipality in the 2023 local elections.[3] After lengthy negotiations following the election, the Conservatives formed a majority with the Labour Party and Centre Party, with Sivertsen as mayor and Labour's Marit Stubberud Hanssen as deputy mayor.[4] Both he and Stubberud Hanssen assumed office on 26 October.[5]

Parliament

He was elected deputy member of the Storting for Troms in 2005, and served until 2009, before being re-elected in 2017 and served until 2021. During this time, he also served as State Secretary for the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries from 2019 to 2020.[1]

Minister of Fisheries

From January to March 2020, Sivertsen served as the Minister of Fisheries in Erna Solberg's cabinet.[6]

He resigned on 2 March after controversy surrounding his severance prior to becoming minister.[7] Sivertsen had received double salary after taking over as Minister of Fisheries, by applying for and getting severance pay after his tenure as Mayor of Lenvik had ended.[8] Labour minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen succeeded him as acting minister[9] until the appointment of Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen as his permanent successor on 13 March.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sivertsen, Geir Inge (1965-)". stortinget.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b Tvedt, Knut Are. "Geir-Inge Sivertsen". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. ^ Simonsen, Maria Holm (30 November 2022). "(+) Nå er Senja Høyre ferdig med nominasjonen — se valglista her". folkebladet.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 December 2022.(subscription required)
  4. ^ "Tidligere fiskeriminister blir ordfører i Senja" (in Norwegian). NRK Troms og Finnmark. 9 October 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Får etterlønn — men det skjedde ikke uten kamp" (in Norwegian). Folkebladet. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.(subscription required)
  6. ^ "Slik er Solberg-regjeringen 4.0" (in Norwegian). NRK. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Fiskeriministeren ber om å få gå av" (in Norwegian). Verdens Gang. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  8. ^ "Presset øker mot fiskeriminister Geir Inge Sivertsen etter nye avsløringer: – Usmakelig forskjellsbehandling av folk" (in Norwegian). ABC Nyheter. 24 February 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Torbjørn Røe Isaksen tar midlertidig over som fiskerminister" (in Norwegian). TV 2. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Guri Melby (V) ny kunnskapsminister og Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen ny fiskerminister" (in Norwegian). NRK. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.