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
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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.

References

Other websites

 Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO website

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