Siv Jensen
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| Born | 1 June 1969 Oslo, Norway |
| Died | 30 September 2021 |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | Oslo Commerce School, Norwegian School of Economics |
| Party | Progress Party (Norway) |
Norwegian single Bilderberger who attended the 2006 Bilderberg as Leader of the Progress Party, a job she held until 2021 | |
Siv Jensen is a Norwegian politician who was leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2021. She also held the position as Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2020. The Progress Party was in its first decades seen by the establishment as unreliable and "populist", and thus unfit for government, despite being firmly transatlantic and pro-Israel This changed in the early 2000s, at the time when Jensen attended the 2006 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Born and raised in Oslo, Jensen graduated with a degree in business studies from the Norwegian School of Economics.
Jensen attended upper secondary school at Oslo Commerce School in Oslo's Frogner district, graduating in 1988. Afterwards she enrolled in the Norwegian School of Economics, receiving her degree in business studies in 1992. She joined the Progress Party in 1988.[1]
Career
She worked as a sales consultant for Radio 1 from 1992, until dedicating her professional life to politics full-time in 1994.[2]
Jensen has been a member of the Storting from the Oslo constituency since first being elected in 1997, while having served as a deputy representative from 1993 to 1997. During the early 1990s, conflict within the party between the younger libertarians and party chairman Carl I. Hagen, Jensen stood on the side of Hagen. She also supported Hagen in the 2001 internal conflict, and stated the same year that Hagen had been like a father figure for her.[3]
From 2001 to 2005 Jensen chaired the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, having been a member of the committee since 1997, and from 2005 to 2013 she was a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence.[4] She played a central role in budget negotiations with the centrist government of Kjell Magne Bondevik, and her work chairing the Finance Committee led her to become increasingly more profiled as a leader-figure within her party.[2]
In 2006, Carl I. Hagen, chairman of the party since 1978 resigned to become vice president of parliament, and Jensen assumed leadership of the Progress Party to no internal opposition.[1]
In May 2009, Jensen held a lecture in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom arranged by the Henry Jackson Society.[5]
On 16 October 2013, Jensen was appointed Minister of Finance as the Progress Party joined a minority coalition government led by the Conservative Party, the party's first ever government participation.[6] Jensen's first national budget included proposals of cutting taxes, and spending more of Norway's oil wealth, and she also appointed a committee to consider changes to the 4% budgetary rule of Oil Fund spending.[7]
Jensen is a staunch supporter of Israel. She visited the Israeli city of Sderot in the summer of 2008[who paid?] and experienced what was said to be Hamas bombing, forcing her and her company to run for the air-raid shelter. Jensen has advocated moving the Norwegian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://snl.no/Siv_Jensen
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://snl.no/Siv_Jensen
- ↑ http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001010065841&tag=item&words=vidar%3Bkleppe
- ↑ Minister of Finance Siv Jensen (Progress Party), Ministry of Finance
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090904122904/http://www.frp.no/Siv+Jensen+holder+foredrag+for+ledere+i+britisk+politikk+og+n%C3%A6ringsliv.d25-TgZbK3j.ips
- ↑ Saleha Mohsin, "Norway Names Jensen Finance Minister After Oil Spending Deal", Bloomberg, 16 Oct 2013
- ↑ "Norway to Spend More Oil Wealth, Cut Taxes", Wall Street Journal, 8 Oct. 2014
- ↑ http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/norsk-politikk/artikkel.php?artid=529145
