Lisbeth Berg-Hansen (born 14 March 1963) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party. She chaired the Norwegian Seafood Federation from 2002 to 2005, and was Vice President of the

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from 2004 to 2008. In politics, she was a political advisor in the Ministry of Fisheries from 1992 to 1996, and State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister from 2000 to 2001. Between 20 October 2009 and 16 October 2013, she was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. She is the deputy chair of the board of the

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, and a member of the board of

Aker Seafoods Havfisk (formerly Aker Seafoods) is a Norwegian Whitefish fishing, seafood processing and sale company. The company was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has its headquarters in Ålesund, Norway. The company operates 15 fishing trawlers nort ...

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, Investinor (formerly known as Statens Investeringsselskap), SOS-barnebyer and

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. She lives in

Bindal Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland region in the extreme southwest part of Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Terråk. Other villages include Bindalseidet, Holm, Vassås, Horsfjord and Åbygda. The m ...

Conflict of interest

Berg-Hansen owns an 8% stake in SinkabergHansen AS, one of Norway's salmon farms, through Jmj Invest AS. NMF, a Norwegian environmental group, filed charges against Berg-Hansen in 2009 claiming that her own economic interests prompted her to violate the regulations she’s supposed to enforce. In November 2013 a

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documentary accused Berg-Hansen of corruption in relaxing the legal levels of toxins allowed in fish in Norway while at leading health advisory committees and related research institutes, specifically the allowing of the pesticide chemical

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whose effects are relatively less researched and the minister having quashed funding for researchers who were about the report the dangerous effects of the pesticide including its ability to cross the blood brain barrier.

Kurt Oddekalv Kurt Willy Oddekalv (27 July 1957 – 11 January 2021) was a Norwegian environmentalist. Career He was excluded from Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature after a vote at the Annual gathering meeting in 1993. As a result of this he c ...

, Norwegian environmental activist called her corrupt & rotten, similar to the Mafia, in the documentary.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Berg-Hansen, Lisbeth 1963 births Living people Norwegian state secretaries Labour Party (Norway) politicians 20th-century Norwegian businesswomen Norwegian women state secretaries Nordland politicians 21st-century Norwegian businesswomen 21st-century Norwegian politicians 21st-century Norwegian women politicians Government ministers of Norway Women government ministers of Norway People from Bindal