Åse Klundelien (born 8 January 1946) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in

Kongsberg Kongsberg () is a historical mining town and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. Kongsberg has been a centre of silver mining, arms production and fo ...

. She attended teacher's college from 1963 to 1967, and worked as a teacher. She was a member of Kongsberg

city council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough counc ...

from 1967 to 1981. She was also a member of

Buskerud Buskerud () is a Counties of Norway, county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Innlandet, Vestland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Hardanger ...

county council A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county. This term has slightly different meanings in different countries. Australia In the Australian state of New South Wales, county councils are special purpose ...

from 1975 to 1987, serving the last term as county mayor. She was elected to the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional represe ...

from Buskerud in

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

, and sat through one term. She served in the Standing Committee on Transport from 1989 to 1990 and the Standing Committee on Finance from 1990 to 1993, and also in the Standing Committee on Scrutiny from 1989 to 1993. She served as a deputy representative during the terms 1977–1981, 1981–1985, and 1993–1997. In 1988 she was hired as director of culture in Buskerud County Municipality. She chaired the Norwegian Gender Equality Council () from 1989 to 1997 and the board of Buskerud Hospital from 1984 to 1987. She was deputy chair of the Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits in 1995 and board member from 1996 to 1997. She was a deputy member of the

Norwegian Language Council The Language Council of Norway (, ) is the administrative body of the Norwegian state on language issues. It regulates the two written forms of the Norwegian language: Bokmål and Nynorsk. It was established in 2005 and replaced the Norwegian Lan ...

from 1980 to 1987 and a deputy board member of

Rikshospitalet Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. It was an independent hospital, ''Rigshospitalet'', later spelled ''Rikshospitalet'' ("The National Hospital"), from 1826 to 20 ...

from 1987 to 1990, the

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from 1994 to 2002 and Norges Kommunalbank.

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1946 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Buskerud politicians People from Kongsberg Members of the Storting 1989–1993 {{Norway-politician-1940s-stub