Olov Grøtting (born 14 September 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She was born in Alvdal as a daughter of farmers. After finishing her secondary education in Tynset in 1979, she worked in tourism, and also studied at Hedmark University College. After a hiatus from higher education she took the master's degree in public administration at the University of Karlstad in 2004. Grøtting was elected to Alvdal municipal council in 1999, served four years, and later returned in 2007 to serve as mayor until 2011. In 2009 she also became deputy leader of Hedmark Centre Party. She served as a 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 Hedmark during the terms 2009–2013 and 2013–2017. She became a full member of Parliament in 2012, when Trygve Slagsvold Vedum was appointed to cabinet. She remained such until the cabinet where Vedum was a member,

Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition between the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, known as the Red–Green Coalition. On 9 September ...

lost office in October 2013.

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