Heidi Sørensen (born 14 February 1970) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. With a Danish father, Sørensen held Danish citizenship in her early life. She was born in

Levanger Levanger is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the district of Innherred. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Levanger. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Alstadhaug, Ekne, ...

, and studied for a

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degree between 1989 and 1992. In her youth Sørensen was an active

environmentalist An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with and/or advocates for the protection of the environment. An environmentalist can be considered a supporter of the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that se ...

, and was leader of

Natur og Ungdom Natur og Ungdom (NU) which translates Nature and Youth, also known in English as Young Friends of the Earth Norway, is a Norwegian youth environment protecting organisation. It is the only environmentalist youth organisation in Norway. 7,000 memb ...

between 1993 and 1994, and later became leader of

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between 1995 and 1998. She was also a working committee member in

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from 1991 to 1995. She was elected to the

Parliament of Norway The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the Great Thing) 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 bas ...

from

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in 2001, but was not re-elected in 2005. She instead served as a deputy representative, but met on a regular basis as

Kristin Halvorsen Kristin Halvorsen (born 2 September 1960) is a Norwegian politician of the Socialist Left Party. She served as Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2009 and as Minister of Education from 2009 to 2013. She also served as the party's leader from 1997 ...

was appointed to

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. In October 2007 Sørensen left Parliament to become a cabinet member herself, serving as State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment. Upon resignation in 2012 she returned to Parliament where she again served as a replacement for Kristin Halvorsen until the term ended in 2013. Sørensen was a member of the

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from 1997 to 2001, the

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from 1999, the board of the

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from 2000 and the

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from 2013. She has also been a member of committees producing

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s on energy and waste management.

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1970 births Living people Norwegian people of Danish descent People from Levanger Politicians from Oslo Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Norwegian state secretaries Nature and Youth activists Norwegian environmentalists Norwegian women environmentalists Women members of the Storting 21st-century Norwegian politicians 21st-century Norwegian women politicians Norwegian women state secretaries {{Norway-politician-1970s-stub