Sylvi Listhaug facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sylvi Listhaug
Leader of the Progress Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 May 2021
First Deputy	Ketil Solvik-Olsen Hans Andreas Limi
Second Deputy	Terje Søviknes
Preceded by	Siv Jensen
Minister of Petroleum and Energy
In office 18 December 2019 – 24 January 2020
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Kjell-Børge Freiberg
Succeeded by	Tina Bru
Minister of the Elderly and Public Health
In office 3 May 2019 – 18 December 2019
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Åse Michaelsen
Succeeded by	Terje Søviknes
Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration
In office 17 January 2018 – 20 March 2018
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Per-Willy Amundsen
Succeeded by	Tor Mikkel Wara
Minister of Immigration and Integration
In office 16 December 2015 – 17 January 2018
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Herself as Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration
Minister of Agriculture and Food
In office 16 October 2013 – 16 December 2015
Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
Preceded by	Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
Succeeded by	Jon Georg Dale
Oslo City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services
In office 18 January 2006 – 27 September 2011
Governing Mayor	Erling Lae Stian Berger Røsland
Preceded by	Margaret Eckbo
Succeeded by	Anniken Hauglie
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2017
Deputy	Jan Steinar Engeli Johansen
Constituency	Møre og Romsdal
Personal details
Born	(1977-12-25) 25 December 1977 (age 46) Ørskog, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Political party	Progress
Spouse	Espen Espeset
Children	3
Alma mater	Volda University College

Sylvi Listhaug (born 25 December 1977) is a Norwegian politician serving as the leader of the Progress Party since 2021.

Listhaug previously served in several ministerial positions under Prime Minister Erna Solberg, last in brief stints as Minister of the Elderly and Public Health and Minister of Petroleum and Energy between 2019 and 2020. Before that, she served as Norway's first Minister of Immigration and Integration from 2015 to 2018, a specially created cabinet position during the European migrant crisis, and Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2013 to 2015. She briefly served as Minister of Justice, Public Security and Immigration in 2018. Originally from the rural municipality of Ørskog in Sunnmøre, she began her political career in Oslo as City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services.

As Minister of Migration and Integration, Listhaug reduced the number of asylum seekers arriving in Norway from 30,000 in 2015 to 2,000 in 2017. Although the drop in asylum seekers was partially linked to an overall fall in traffic to Europe, Listhaug was credited with proposing and securing support for many new regulations and overseeing the tightening of the system, which resulted in a 19-year low in number of new asylum arrivals.

She is currently serving as a member of the Storting and the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services. Listhaug has been called a "rising star" in the Progress Party by both national and international media. She has been mentioned by long-time party chairman Carl I. Hagen as a candidate to succeed Siv Jensen as party leader. Listhaug was constituted as First Deputy Leader of the Progress Party in September 2018.

Early life and education

Listhaug was born in Ålesund. She was raised on the family farm in Ørskog, Møre og Romsdal, to which she has odelsrett. Her father worked with transportation, while her mother ran the family farm. She has two twin siblings.

In 1995 Listhaug began to work as a care assistant at the Ørskog home for the elderly, and from 1996 to 2000 she studied history, social sciences, and special education at the Volda University College, and continued to work at the Ørskog home to support herself during her student years. In 2000 she graduated and qualified as a teacher, and from 2000 to 2001 she worked as a teacher at the Sjøholt school in Ørskog.

See also

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