Ketil Solvik-Olsen
| Ketil Solvik-Olsen | |
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| Minister of Transport and Communications | |
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Assumed office 16 October 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Marit Arnstad |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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In office 1 October 2005 – 12 September 2013 |
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| Constituency | Rogaland |
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14 February 1972 Time, Rogaland, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Spouse(s) | Tone Solvik-Olsen |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Toledo |
| Religion | Christianity; associated with Pentecostalism |
| Website | Official website |
Ketil Solvik-Olsen (born 14 February 1972) is a Norwegian politician who has been Minister of Transport and Communications in the Solberg cabinet and second deputy leader of the Progress Party since 2013.
He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament for Rogaland from 2005, until deciding not to seek renomination in 2013.
Solvik-Olsen was born and raised in Time, Rogaland to self-employed businessman Aksel Emil Solvik-Olsen (born 1943) and socionom Berit Lagergren (born 1943). After finishing Rosseland elementary School, he attended Bryne Upper Secondary school, and later an International Baccalaureate at St. Olav Upper Secondary school in Stavanger from 1990 to 1992.
He was an exchange student to the United States at Blissfield High School, Michigan from 1989 to 1990. From 1994 to 1997 he studied political science and social economics (summa cum laude) at the University of Toledo, Ohio. He spent over five years in the US, including work for Disney, as a volunteer during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and as an intern in the United States Senate.
Solvik-Olsen joined the Progress Party's Youth when he was fifteen years old, in 1987. He held various positions locally within the youth organisation from 1988 to 1992. He made his way into national politics initially by working as a political advisor and aide to Øyvind Vaksdal and Siv Jensen for five years, having moved to Oslo around 1998.
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