This is Norway Primer Minister Anne-Grete Strøm Erichsen during the inspection of Norway military contingent in Lebanon, September 2006.

Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen was born in Bergen in 1949. She was educated as computer engineer. She has twenty years private and public sector experience in computers and information technology in the fields of system development and management. She was Commissioner, City of Bergen, from 2003 until she was appointed minister of defence.

Political positions:

Date
Position

1991 - 2005
Member of Bergen City Council

1991 - 2000
Member of the Executive Board, Bergen City Council

1992
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Bergen

1995 - 1998
Councillor and Chairman of the Principal Committee on Schools, City of Bergen

1997 - 1999
Leader of Hordaland Labour Party

1998 - 1999
Deputy Mayor, City of Bergen

1998 - 1999
Chairman of the Committee on Leisure and Culture, City of Bergen

1998 - 2000
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bergen City of Culture 2000

1999 - 2001
President of the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC)

1999 - June 2000
Mayor, City of Bergen

June 2000 - October 2003
Chief Commissioner of the City of Bergen following introduction of the parliamentary system of city government

2001 -
Member of Labour Party Central Council

October 2003 - 2005
Councillor and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Environmental Affairs and Urban Development for the City of Bergen