André Støylen (born 9 April 1968) is a Norwegian politician for the

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. Born in

Ørsta is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region of Western Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørsta. Other villages in the municipality include Hovdebygda, Flåsk ...

, he served in the position of deputy representative to the

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from Møre og Romsdal during the term 1989–1993. From 1994 to 1996 he was the leader of the Young Conservatives (''Unge Høyre''), the youth wing of the Conservative Party. When the Conservative Party entered the cabinet in 2001, Støylen was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment. In 2002 he became City Commissioner (''byråd'') of Finance in the city government of

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, leaving in 2007. In 2008 he was appointed to the board of the

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. In 2014 he was hired as the new chief executive of the foundation Sparebankstiftelsen DnB.

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1968 births Living people Deputy members of the Storting Norwegian state secretaries Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Oslo People from Ørsta Norwegian businesspeople BI Norwegian Business School alumni {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub