Ågot Jorunn Valle (born 26 May 1945 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 ...

) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV). She was elected to the

Norwegian Parliament 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

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

in 1997. She worked as a physiotherapist and a county council member in Hordaland before entering national politics. She has also been involved in the organization ''Nei til EU'' (No to the EU). She was member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 2009 until 2014, the body that awards the

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

Parliamentary Presidium duties

* 2001 – 2005 President of the

Odelsting 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 ...

Parliamentary Committee duties

*2005 – 2009 member of the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee. *2005 – 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. *2001 – 2005 leader of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs. *2001 – 2005 deputy member of the Enlarged Foreign Affairs Committee. *1997 – 2001 deputy leader of the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs. *1997 – 2001 deputy member of the Electoral Committee.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valle, Aagot 1945 births Living people Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 21st-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians People from Levanger