Marit Nybakk
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Marit Nybakk MP |
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Member of Parliament for Oslo |
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Assumed office 9 May 1986 |
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| Preceded by | Gro Harlem Brundtland |
| 31st President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights | |
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Assumed office 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Margunn Bjørnholt |
| First Vice-President of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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Assumed office 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Øyvind Korsberg |
| 62nd President of the Nordic Council | |
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In office 2013–2013 |
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| Preceded by | Kimmo Sasi |
| Succeeded by | Karin Åström |
| Leader of the Socialist Group in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Third Vice-President of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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In office 2009–2013 |
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| Succeeded by | Svein Roald Hansen |
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14 February 1947 Nord-Odal, Norway |
| Nationality | Norway |
| Political party | Labour Party |
Marit Nybakk (born 14 February 1947 in Nord-Odal) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, and First Vice-President of the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting. She served as President of the Nordic Council in 2013. Since 2016 she is President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights, the preeminent women's and girls' rights organisation in Norway.
A pragmatic social democrat and a proponent of the Third Way, she became a Member of Parliament in 1986 as the substitute for Gro Harlem Brundtland when the latter became Prime Minister, and is currently Norway's longest-serving member of parliament and the longest-serving woman of all times. In 2009 she became the Storting's Third Vice President, before becoming First Vice President in 2013.
Nybakk has been one of the Labour Party's principal politicians in foreign and defence affairs since the 1990s and has been her party's spokesperson on defence. She was Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defence between 2001 and 2005 and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs between 2005 and 2009. She became leader of the Socialist Group in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2009.
Nybakk studied English, French and political science in Oslo, Paris and Cambridge, and graduated with the cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo in 1972. She also studied theatre and drama in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1974. As a student, she was a member of the university board of the University of Oslo, as the first woman to serve in that body. She was President of the Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund 1977–1981.
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