John-Ragnar Aarset (born 18 December 1973 in Geilo) is a Norwegian politician for the

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. Aarset was a member of the

Hol Hol is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. Administrative history The area of Hol was separated from the municipality Ål in 1877 to become a separate municipality. In 1937 a part of neighboring Uvdal with 220 inhabitants moved to Hol municip ...

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from 1991 to 1995. During the period 1995 to 2002, he was a member of the Buskerud

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. From 1998 to 2000 he was the leader of the Young Conservatives (''Unge Høyre''), the youth wing of the Conservative Party. He served in the position of deputy representative 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 Buskerud during the term 2001–2005 and 2005–2009. In 2004, during the second cabinet Bondevik, Aarset was appointed political advisor in the

Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development ( no, Kommunal- og regionaldepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry established in 1948. It is responsible for the housing and building, regional and rural policy, municipal and ...

. He held the post until the change in government in 2005. In 2013, upon the inauguration of Solberg's Cabinet, he was named a State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Since December 2015 he is the Secretary-General of Høyre.

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1973 births Living people People from Hol, Norway Deputy members of the Storting Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Buskerud politicians Norwegian state secretaries {{Norway-politician-1970s-stub