Anders Anundsen
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Anders Anundsen MP |
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| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 16 October 2013 – 20 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Grete Faremo |
| Succeeded by | Per-Willy Amundsen |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 October 2005 |
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| Constituency | Vestfold |
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17 November 1975 Stavern, Vestfold, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Spouse(s) | Marianne Ringnes |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo (LL.M.) |
Anders Anundsen (born 17 November 1975) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who was Minister of Justice between October 2013 and December 2016. He has been a member of the Norwegian parliament from Vestfold since 2005.
A jurist by education, Anundsen rose to prominence for his work chairing the parliamentary Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs from 2009 to 2013, summoning several cabinet members to hearings, as well as committee work that concluded unanimously to criticise the government of Jens Stoltenberg for lack of emergency preparedness prior to the 2011 Norway attacks.
Anders Anundsen was born in Stavern (now part of Larvik), Vestfold to senior financial advisor Arne Anundsen (born 1949) and assistant teacher Anne Gro Lysebo (born 1953). He studied law at Folkeuniversitetet from 1994 to 1995, and took minors in public law in 1998, and private law in 1999. In 2005 he finished the law profession study, and completed his Master of Laws from the University of Oslo in 2008.
Anundsen was a member of the Vestfold county council from 1995 to 2007, and a member of the Larvik municipal council from 1999 to 2007. He has held numerous positions in the Progress Party, locally and in its youth organisation, and was chairman of the Progress Party's Youth in 1996, and from 1998 to 1999. He worked as political advisor and aide to the Progress Party parliamentary group from 1995 to 1997.
Anundsen was elected to the Norwegian parliament from Vestfold in 2005, while previously having served as a deputy representative from 1997 to 2001. He served as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 2008 to 2013. From 2009 to 2013 he chaired the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs. As chairman of the committee, Anundsen summoned several ministers of the Red–Green government to open hearings due to accusations of conflicts of interest, including Jonas Gahr Støre, Trond Giske and Audun Lysbakken (Lysbakken later resigned due to the case against him).
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