Siv Jensen
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Siv Jensen MP |
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| Minister of Finance | |
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Assumed office 16 October 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Sigbjørn Johnsen |
| Leader of the Progress Party | |
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Assumed office 5 October 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Carl I. Hagen |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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Assumed office 15 September 1997 |
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| Constituency | Oslo |
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1 June 1969 Oslo, Norway |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Alma mater | Norwegian School of Economics |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Siv Jensen (born 1 June 1969) is a Norwegian politician who has been Minister of Finance since 2013, and leader of the Progress Party since 2006. She has been a member of the Norwegian parliament from Oslo since 1997.
Born and raised in Oslo, Jensen graduated with a degree in business studies from the Norwegian School of Economics. She was first elected to parliament in the 1997 parliamentary election, and has later been re-elected for four consecutive terms. She chaired the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs from 2001 to 2005, and in 2006 succeeded long-time chairman Carl I. Hagen as leader of the Progress Party.
Jensen was the Progress Party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2009 parliamentary election, which saw record high results for the party. For the 2013 parliamentary election she supported prospects of a coalition government headed by the Conservative Party, and led her party into the Solberg Cabinet, the Progress Party's first ever government participation.
Siv Jensen was born in Oslo to self-employed Tore Jensen (1926–1989), and Monica Kjelsberg (born 1939), owners of a shoe store during her childhood. While she holds that her neighbourhood was a nice place to grow up, her home was the scene of numerous burglaries. Her parents were divorced around 1980, and her father soon moved to Sweden. Her mother was for a short while active in the Ullern Progress Party, until finding out that politics was "not her thing".
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