Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen (born 23 February 1966) is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

from the Conservative Party who is a member of the Storting for Akershus since 2013 and served as the

President of the Storting 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 2018 to 2021.

Personal life

She is married to Ove Trøen, together they have one son.

Political career

Parliament

First elected from Akershus in

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...

, she was a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services in her first term as member of parliament. Trøen was reelected in

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...

and appointed to the

Election Committee The Election Committee is a Hong Kong electoral college, the function of which is to select the Chief Executive (CE) and, since 2021, to elect 40 of the 90 members of the Legislative Council. Established by Annex I of the Basic Law of Ho ...

and also as chair of the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs. After the

Solberg cabinet The Solberg Cabinet was the government of the Kingdom of Norway, headed by Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg as Prime Minister from 16 October 2013 to 14 October 2021. The government was appointed by King Harald V on 16 October 2013 follo ...

's defeat in the 2021 election, Trøen became the chair of the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services.

President of the Storting

Following Olemic Thommessen's resignation as President of the Storting, she became the Conservative Party's candidate to replace him as President on 14 March 2018. She was formally elected as the day after. She is the second woman to have served as President of the Storting, the first being

Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl Brit Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl (born 1 September 1943) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, former County Governor of Buskerud. She was Minister of Education and Church Affairs from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of International Development ...

of the Labour Party, who served from 1993 until 2001. In March 2021, the Storting was the victim of a cyber attack. Trøen called it "an attack on our democracy" and noted that the attack had the potential to disturb parliamentary processes. In September, after several media revelations of MPs misusing parliamentary commuter homes and the severance pay scheme, Trøen announced that the Storting presidency would be looking into the matter. A revelation of the former later lead to the resignation of minister of children and families Kjell Ingolf Ropstad. A few days later, it was also revealed that Trøen herself also had misused her parliamentary commuter home by allowing her son to utilise it as a student dormitory. She argued that nothing in the rules prohibited the home for such usage.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Troen, Tone Wilhelmsen Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Presidents of the Storting Members of the Storting Akershus politicians 1966 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Norwegian politicians