Sylvi Listhaug
| Sylvi Listhaug | |
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| Minister of Migration and Integration | |
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Assumed office 16 December 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Minister of Agriculture and Food | |
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In office 16 October 2013 – 16 December 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg |
| Preceded by | Trygve Slagsvold Vedum |
| Succeeded by | Jon Georg Dale |
| Oslo City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services | |
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In office 18 January 2006 – 27 September 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Margaret Eckbo |
| Succeeded by | Anniken Hauglie |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
25 December 1977 Ørskog, Møre og Romsdal, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Progress Party |
| Spouse(s) | Espen Espeset |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Volda University College |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Sylvi Listhaug (born 25 December 1977) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who has been Minister of Migration and Integration since December 2015. She served as Minister of Agriculture and Food from 2013 to 2015, and as Oslo City Commissioner of Welfare and Social Services from 2006 to 2011. She has been a member of the Progress Party central board since 2005.
Listhaug was born and raised on a 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.
Listhaug started her political career locally in Ørskog. She has held several positions within the Progress Party and its youth organisation since 1998, and has been a member of the Progress Party central board since 2005. She worked as political advisor and aide to the Progress Party's parliamentary group from 2001 to 2004, and in 2005 had a stay abroad as an intern in the United States House of Representatives. She has served as a deputy representative in the Norwegian parliament from Møre og Romsdal (2001 to 2009), and from Oslo (2009 to 2013), with a total 95 days of parliamentary session served.
Listhaug was appointed city commissioner (byråd) of welfare and social services in the city government of Oslo in 2006, having been secretary to the previous commissioner Margaret Eckbo. Listhaug spearheaded a number of reforms as commissioner, introducing free choice in home care, and reintroducing senior homes in her first year. She stated as her goals more competition and better nursing homes, and opening for more private companies.
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