Geir-Inge Sivertsen (born 29 August 1965) is a Norwegian engineer and politician for the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

. From January to March 2020, he served as the Minister of Fisheries in Erna Solberg's cabinet.NRK> He resigned after controversy surrounding his severance prior to becoming minister.VG"> He is the mayoral candidate for the Conservative Party of

Senja or is an island in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway, Europe. With an area of , it is the second largest island in Norway (outside of the Svalbard archipelago). It has a wild, mountainous outer (western) side facing the Atlantic, and a mild ...

in the 2023 Norwegian local elections. Sivertsen served as mayor of Lenvik municipality from 2011 to 2019, and has served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries from 2019 to 2020. Sivertsen hails from Finnsnes, and graduated as engineer from the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

. He was elected deputy member of the

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for the periods 2005–2009 and 2017–2021. Sivertsen had received double salary after taking over as Minister of Fisheries, by applying for and getting severance pay after his duty as Mayor of Lenvik had ended. This eventually led to his resignation.ABC Nyheter: Presset øker mot fiskeriminister Geir Inge Sivertsen etter nye avsløringer: – Usmakelig forskjellsbehandling av folk (In Norwegian)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sivertsen, Geir-Inge 1965 births Living people People from Senja Norwegian engineers Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Mayors of places in Troms Deputy members of the Storting Norwegian state secretaries Government ministers of Norway