Elisabeth Aspaker | |
Office: | County Governor of Troms og Finnmark |
Term Start: | 1 January 2019 |
Primeminister: | Erna Solberg Jonas Gahr Støre |
Deputy: | Stian Lindgård |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Office1: | County Governor of Troms |
Monarch1: | Harald V |
Primeminister1: | Erna Solberg |
Term Start1: | 30 October 2017 |
Term End1: | 31 December 2018 |
Predecessor1: | Bård Magne Pedersen |
Successor1: | Position abolished (merged with Finnmark) |
Term Start2: | 16 December 2015 |
Term End2: | 20 December 2016 |
Primeminister2: | Erna Solberg |
Predecessor2: | Vidar Helgesen |
Successor2: | Frank Bakke-Jensen |
Office3: | Minister of Fisheries |
Term Start3: | 16 October 2013 |
Term End3: | 16 December 2015 |
Primeminister3: | Erna Solberg |
Predecessor3: | Lisbeth Berg-Hansen |
Successor3: | Per Sandberg |
Office4: | Minister of Nordic Cooperation |
Term Start4: | 16 October 2013 |
Term End4: | 20 December 2016 |
Primeminister4: | Erna Solberg |
Predecessor4: | Rigmor Aasrud |
Successor4: | Frank Bakke-Jensen |
Office5: | Member of the Storting |
Term Start5: | 1 October 2005 |
Term End5: | 30 September 2017 |
Constituency5: | Troms |
Office6: | Second Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party |
Term Start6: | 10 April 1994 |
Term End6: | 29 March 1998 |
Leader6: | Jan Petersen |
Predecessor6: | John G. Bernander |
Successor6: | Anne Berit Andersen |
Birth Date: | 1962 10, df=y |
Birth Place: | Harstad, Troms, Norway |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Party: | Conservative |
Alma Mater: | University of Tromsø |
Elisabeth Vik Aspaker (born 16 October 1962) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party and she is the current county governor of Troms og Finnmark county. She was also the Minister of European Affairs from 2015 to 2016 and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2013 to 2016. From 2013 to 2015, she also served as Minister of Fisheries.[1]
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms in 2005. She previously served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the terms 1989 - 1993 and 1997 - 2001.
From 1986 to 1990 she was the deputy leader of the Norwegian Young Conservatives. During the cabinet Syse, she was private secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Justice and the Police. During the second cabinet Bondevik, she was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Education and Research before being promoted to State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Care Services in 2004.
She was first nominated as county governor of Troms in 2014 and assumed office in late October 2017 after completing her term in parliament.[2] [3] She continued in the position after Troms was merged with Finnmark.[4] She retained her position despite the counties being split again in 2024. In May the same year, she announced that she wouldn't seek re-appointment to the position and would step down by the end of the year.[5]
On the local level she was a member of Harstad municipal council from 1991 to 1995, and of its executive committee from 1999 to 2001. From 1991 to 1999 she was a member of Troms county council, serving as deputy county mayor beginning in 1995.
Before entering politics, she worked as a teacher. Aspaker was educated at Tromsø lærerhøgskole and Harstad University College, both of which today is a part of the University of Tromsø.