Jens Stoltenberg

**Jens Stoltenberg** (; born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who is the Minister of Finance since 2025. He was the 13th Secretary General of NATO from 2014 to 2024. He was the Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the Labour Party. On 28 March 2014, he was appointed by NATO's North Atlantic Council as Secretary General of NATO and chairman of the North Atlantic Council, in succession to Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He held the position from 1 October 2014 to 1 October 2024.

## Political career

Stoltenberg has been a member of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate.
Stoltenberg was born in Oslo, and is a member of the Stoltenberg political family. He is married to Ingrid Schulerud and they have two children together. He is an agnostic.

During the 2011 Norway attacks, the building where the prime minister's office then was - was bombed; Stoltenberg was then at the prime minister's residence (or the building which becomes the prime mininster's home, until he no longer is a prime minister).

On February 4th, 2022 he was named as the incoming governor of Norges Bank. However, after a NATO summit in March 2022 concerning the war in Ukraine, Stoltenberg accepted a renewed term of one year to continue as NATO secretary-general and thereby resigned as incoming central bank governor. Acting Governor Ida Wolden Bache was instead given the term that Stoltenberg was meant to take on.

In August 2013, Stoltenberg that he had spent an afternoon working secretly as a taxi driver in Oslo. Stoltenberg said he had wanted to "hear from real Norwegian voters" and that "taxis were one of the few places where people shared their true views." He added that, before driving the taxi, he had not driven a car in eight years.

On 4 February 2025, following the collapse of the coalition between the Centre Party and the Labour Party, Stoltenberg replaced Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the leader of the Centre Party, as Norway's Minister of Finance.

## Personal life

Family: Stoltenberg's father, Thorvald (1931–2018), was the Foreign Minister in the Brundtland government twice.

## Other websites

- Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO website

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Jens Stoltenberg
- **image**: File:JensStoltenberg (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Stoltenberg in 2025
- **office**: Minister of Finance (Norway), Minister of Finance
- **term start**: 4 February 2025
- **primeminister**: Jonas Gahr Støre
- **predecessor**: Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
- **primeminister1**: Thorbjørn Jagland
- **term start1**: 25 October 1996
- **term end1**: 17 October 1997
- **predecessor1**: Sigbjørn Johnsen
- **successor1**: Gudmund Restad
- **order2**: 13th
- **office2**: Secretary General of NATO
- **term start2**: 1 October 2014
- **term end2**: 1 October 2024
- **deputy2**: Alexander Vershbow
Rose Gottemoeller
Mircea Geoană
- **predecessor2**: Anders Fogh Rasmussen
- **successor2**: Mark Rutte
- **office3**: Prime Minister of Norway
- **monarch3**: Harald V
- **term start3**: 17 October 2005
- **term end3**: 16 October 2013
- **predecessor3**: Kjell Magne Bondevik
- **successor3**: Erna Solberg
- **monarch4**: Harald V
- **term start4**: 17 March 2000
- **term end4**: 19 October 2001
- **predecessor4**: Kjell Magne Bondevik
- **successor4**: Kjell Magne Bondevik
- **office5**: Leader of the Opposition
- **term start5**: 16 October 2013
- **term end5**: 14 June 2014
- **primeminister5**: Erna Solberg
- **predecessor5**: Erna Solberg
- **successor5**: Jonas Gahr Støre
- **term start6**: 19 October 2001
- **term end6**: 17 October 2005
- **primeminister6**: Kjell Magne Bondevik
- **successor6**: Erna Solberg
- **office7**: Labour Party (Norway), Leader of the Labour Party
- **term start7**: 10 November 2002
- **term end7**: 14 June 2014
- **deputy7**: Hill-Marta Solberg
Helga Pedersen (Norway), Helga Pedersen
- **predecessor7**: Thorbjørn Jagland
- **successor7**: Jonas Gahr Støre
- **office8**: Ministry of Trade and Industry (Norway), Minister of Industry and Energy
- **primeminister8**: Gro Harlem Brundtland
- **term start8**: 7 October 1993
- **term end8**: 25 October 1996
- **predecessor8**: Finn Kristensen (as Minister of Industry)
- **successor8**: Grete Faremo (as Minister of Petroleum and Energy)
- **office9**: Storting, Member of the Norwegian Parliament
- **term start9**: 1 October 1993
- **term end9**: 30 September 2017
- **deputy9**: Anders Hornslien
Inger Lise Husøy
Ragnar Bøe Elgsaas
Truls Wickholm
Håkon Haugli
- **constituency9**: Oslo
- **birth place**: Oslo, Norway
- **party**: Labour Party (Norway), Labour
- **children**: 2
- **parents**: Karin Stoltenberg, Karin Heiberg
Thorvald Stoltenberg
- **alma mater**: University of Oslo (Cand.oecon.)
- **signature**: Jens Stoltenberg signature.svg
- **website**:

- **branch**:  Norwegian Army