Dag Terje Andersen

Dag Terje Andersen
President of the Storting
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 October 2009
Preceded by	Thorbjørn Jagland
Personal details
Born	27 May 1957 (1957-05-27) Frogn, Akershus
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Norwegian Labour Party
Occupation	Politician

Dag Terje Andersen (born 27 May 1957 in Frogn, Akershus) 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 (Storting) as a representative from Vestfold in 1997, and he was re-elected in the 2005 election.

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.

On 8 October 2009 Andersen was elected as President of the Storting.

External links

• "Dag Terje Andersen" (in Norwegian). Stortinget.no. http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=DTA&tab=Biography. 

Political offices
Preceded by Gunhild Øyangen	Norwegian Minister of Agriculture 1996–1997	Succeeded by Kåre Gjønnes
Preceded by Odd Eriksen	Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry 2006–2008	Succeeded by Sylvia Brustad
Preceded by Bjarne Håkon Hanssen	Norwegian Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion 2008–2009	Succeeded by Hanne Bjurstrøm
Preceded by Thorbjørn Jagland	President of the Storting 2009	Succeeded by Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Thorbjørn Jagland	Party secretary of the Labour Party 1992–1996	Succeeded by Solveig Torsvik